Quotes about J.C. Ryle

The love of Christ to sinners is the very essence and marrow of the Gospel.

Peace, and not riches, had been the great legacy which He had left with the eleven the night before His crucifixion.

All the earth [will] know how evil a thing it is to despise the Son of God.

How true it is that the holiest saint in his humanness is a miserable sinner and a debtor to mercy and grace to the last moment of his existence

There is nothing I dislike so much in prophetic inquiry as dogmatism or overconfidence. Much of the discredit that has fallen on prophetic study has arisen from the fact that many students, instead of expounding prophecy, have turned into prophets themselves.

I do not believe that either the preterist view of interpreting Revelation, which regards the book as almost entirely fulfilled, or the futurist view, which regards it as almost entirely unfulfilled, are to be implicitly followed. The truth, I expect, will be found to lie somewhere between the two.

His pleasures and wishes must not determine his direction. He doesn't know yet what is good for his mind and soul, any more than what is good for his body.

People make nothing of God's authority. God threatens, but they despise His threatening. They make nothing of dishonoring God. They care not how much their behavior is to His.

J.C. Ryle is an evangelical champion...One of the bravest and best of men.

Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.