J. C. Ryle Quotes

Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.

Be wise in time. What youth sows, old age must reap....Sow to yourself rather in righteousness: brea...

Young man, be of good courage. Care not for what the world says or thinks: you will not be with the ...

It is not possible to say too much about Christ. But it is quite possible to say too little about he...

It is useless to say you have no time. There is plenty of time, if men will employ it. Time may be s...

We must wrestle earnestly in prayer like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.

A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers.

Hell is truth known too late.

Christ's death is the Christian's life. Christ's cross is the Christian's title to heaven. Christ "l...

No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.

No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.

Hell, hell fire, the damnation of hell, eternal damnation, the resurrection of the damnation, everla...

Without conversion of heart we cannot serve God on earth. We have naturally neither faith, nor fear,...

Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can und...

Let there be no mistake in your mind as to the special character of the man who has come to Christ, ...

Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone b...

Ignorance of Scripture is the root of every error in religion, and the source of ever heresy. To be ...

Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a r...

Like infants, when they are born into the world, God's children are not born again in the full posse...

Do nothing that you would not like God to see. Say nothing you would not like God to hear. Write not...

He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its t...

We live in a day of abounding vagueness and indistinctness on doctrinal subjects in religion. Now, i...

Christ is to the souls of men what the sun is to the world. He is the center and source of all spiri...

It is bad enough to be unconverted and going to hell. It is even worse to say, “I know it and will n...

Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will...

The greater are our affections the deeper are our afflictions, and the more we love the more we have...

That sin will never stand firm which is heartily prayed against....We must spread out all our case b...