John Charles Ryle (10 May 1816 – 10 June 1900) was an English Evangelical Anglican bishop. He was the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool.
Do you wish to grow in grace and be a holy Christian? Then never forget the value of prayer.
True repentance is no light matter. It is a thorough change of heart about sin, a change showing itself in godly sorrow and humiliation - in heartfelt confession before the throne of grace - in a complete breaking off from sinful habits, and an abiding hatred of all sin. Such repentance is the inseparable companion of saving faith in Christ.
He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never let it be said that any perished at the foot of the cross.
The true Christian delights to hear something about their Master. They like those sermons best which are full of Christ.
Laughter, ridicule, opposition and persecution are often the only reward which Christ’s followers get from the world.
"A humble and prayerful person will find a thousand things in the Bible, which the proud student will utterly fail to discern. " ~ J. C. Ryle
Two-thirds of all the strifes, quarrels, and lawsuits in the world arise from one simple cause-money.
Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
There is one subject in religion, about which you can never know too much. That subject is Jesus Christ the Lord.
Prayer is the surest remedy against the devil and besetting sins.
Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.
Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.
Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome. ' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.
The minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man.
We know nothing of humility by nature, for we are all born proud.
Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
We must cast away everything which hinders us upon our road towards heaven – the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye and the pride of life; the love of riches, pleasures and honors, the spirit of lukewarmness and carelessness and indifference about the things of God – all must be rooted out and forsaken if we are anxious for the prize. We must mortify the deeds of the body, we must crucify our affections for this world.
Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world- one is a young man that is humble, and the other is an old man that is content. I fear that this is only too true.
There is but one fountain of comfort for a man drawing near to his end, and that is the Bible. . . . All comfort from any other source is a house built upon sand.
The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.