J. C. Ryle Quotes About Heaven

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It costs something to be a real Christian, according to the standard of the Bible. There are enemies to be overcome, battles to be fought, sacrifices to be made, an Egypt to be forsaken, a wilderness to be passed through, a cross to be carried, a race to be run. Conversion is not putting a person in an arm-chair and taking them easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.

J. C. Ryle

Christian, Running, Real
If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange thing, if we have to endure sicknesses, losses, bereavements, and disappointments, just like other men. Free pardon and full forgiveness, grace along the way, and glory at the endall this our Savior has promised to give. But He has never promised that we shall have no afflictions.

J. C. Ryle

Forgiveness, God, Christian

"Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Mark".
Let us watch against pride in every shape - pride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride of our own goodness. Nothing is so likely to keep a person out of heaven, and prevent them from seeing Christ, as pride. So long as we think we are something we shall never be saved. Let us pray for and cultivate humility; let us seek to know ourselves correctly, and to find out our place in the sight of a holy God.

J. C. Ryle

Humility, Pride, Thinking
To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.

J. C. Ryle

Prayer, Heaven, Grace

J.C Ryle, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “PRACTICAL RELIGION”, Lulu.com
A trial is an instrument by which our Father in heaven makes Christians more holy.

J. C. Ryle

Christian, Father, Heaven

J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.271, Editora Dracaena
Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations.

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Blessing, Hymns, People
There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven - the crucified Son of God.

J. C. Ryle

Son, Doors, Bridges
True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience.

J. C. Ryle

Self, Practice, Heaven
Lastly, we must be holy, because without holiness on earth - we will never be prepared to enjoy Heaven. ...I do not know what others may think - but to me it does seem clear that Heaven would be a miserable place to an unholy man. It cannot be otherwise. People may say in a vague way, that they "hope to go to Heaven, but they do not consider what they say. There must be a certain "fitness for the inheritance of the saints in light.

J. C. Ryle

Men, Thinking, Light
By affliction He teaches us many precious lessons, which without it we should never learn. By affliction He shows us our emptiness and weakness, draws us to the throne of grace, purifies our affections, weans us from the world, makes us long for heaven.

J. C. Ryle

Long, Heaven, Grace

"Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Mark".
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.

J. C. Ryle

Eye, Pride, Heaven
Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not holy; a God who as a heaven for every body, but a hell for none; a God who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and broad in eternity. Such a God is an idol of your own, as truly an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him. He is not the God of the Bible, and beside the God of the Bible there is no God at all.

J. C. Ryle

Hands, Idols, Snakes
The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell.

J. C. Ryle

Heaven, Way, Hell

J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew”, p.102, Editora Dracaena
That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.

J. C. Ryle

Mercy Of God, Joy, Heaven

J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com
No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

J. C. Ryle

Jesus, Heaven, Christ

J.C. Ryle (2012). “Repentance”, p.10, Ravenio Books
According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.

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Men, Heaven, World

J.C. Ryle (2015). “Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity”, p.60, Ravenio Books
The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.

J. C. Ryle

Men, Heaven, Selfishness

J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.145, Editora Dracaena
In Christ alone God’s rich provision of salvation for sinners is treasured up: by Christ alone God’s abundant mercies come down from heaven to earth. Christ’s blood alone can cleanse us; Christ’s righteousness alone can cleanse us; Christ’s merit alone can give us a title to heaven. Jews and Gentiles, learned and unlearned, kings and poor men--all alike must either be saved by the Lord Jesus, or lost forever.

J. C. Ryle

Jesus, Kings, Men
Do something, by God’s help, to make heaven more full and hell more empty.

J. C. Ryle

Heaven, Helping, Hell

J.C. Ryle (2015). “Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity”, p.47, Ravenio Books
Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.

J. C. Ryle

Winning, Men, Heaven

J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com
If you show me a man deliberately living an unholy and licentious life, and yet boasting that his sins are forgiven, I answer, 'He is under a ruinous delusion, and is not forgiven at all.' I would not believe he is forgiven if an angel from heaven affirmed it, and I charge you not to believe it too. Pardon of sin and love of sin are like oil and waterthey will never go together. All who are washed in the blood of Christ, are also sanctified by the Spirit of Christ.

J. C. Ryle

Believe, Angel, Men

"Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity".
People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger of hell.

J. C. Ryle

People, Heaven, Faces

J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.32, Letcetera Publishing
Such true worship will stand the test of Christ's great principle, “By their fruits you shall know them”. It sanctifies the Christian's life, and makes them walk with God, lifting them above fear and love of the world. It enables a Christian to show God to other folks. Such worship comes from heaven, and has the mark of God upon it.

J. C. Ryle

Christian, Heaven, And Love
He that has trained his children for heaven,
rather than for earth- for God rather than for man- he is the parent who will be called wise at the last.

J. C. Ryle

Wise, Children, Men

J.C. Ryle (2015). “The Duties of Parents”, p.10, Booklassic
No salvation without regeneration - no spiritual life without a new birth - no heaven without a new heart.

J. C. Ryle

Spiritual, Heart, Heaven

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Born: May 10, 1816
Died: June 10, 1900
Occupation: Bishop of Liverpool
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