J. C. Ryle Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• Walk more closely with God. Get nearer to Christ. Seek to exchange hope for assurance. Seek to feel the witness of the Spirit more closely and distinctly every year. Lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily threatens you. Press towards the mark more earnestly. Fight a better fight, and war a better warfare every year you live. Pray more. Read more. Subdue self more. Love the brethren more. Oh that you may endeavor to grow in grace every year, that the end of your Christian course may be better than the beginning!

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, War, Fighting

• Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.

  J. C. Ryle

  Doe, Worship, Christ

• Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness.

  J. C. Ryle

  Selfishness, Want, Christ

• All the simplicity in the world can do no good, unless you preach the simple gospel of Jesus Christ so fully and clearly that everybody can understand it. If 'Christ crucified' has not His rightful place in your sermons, and sin is not exposed as it should be, and your people are not plainly told what they ought to believe, and be, and do - your preaching is of no use!

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Believe, Simple

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “The Upper Room: Biblical Truths For Modern Times”, p.33, Whitaker House

• There are few professing Christians, it may be feared, who strive to imitate Christ in the matter of private devotion. There is abundance of hearing, reading, talking, professing, visiting, contributing to the poor and teaching at schools. But is there, together with all this, a due proportion of private prayer? Are believing men and women sufficiently careful to be frequently alone with God?

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Prayer, Believe

• Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christ, Copies

• 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

• We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ's steps, and let the world say what it likes.

  J. C. Ryle

  Giving Up, Ideas, Trying

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.132, Editora Dracaena

• Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Feelings, Christ, Glory

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.243, Letcetera Publishing

• True Christian is not an angel; he is not a halfangelic being, in whom is no weakness, or blemish, or infirmity: he is nothing of the kind. He is nothing more than a sinner who has found out his sinfulness, and has learned the blessed secret of living by faith in Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Blessed, Secret

  "Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity".

• 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

• The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Punishment, People, Desire

• Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.

  J. C. Ryle

  Book, Dark, Christ

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity”, p.178, Ravenio Books

• It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Relatives And Friends, Impossible, Christ

• If you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to him.

  J. C. Ryle

  Debt, Christ, Reason

  "Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots".

• No doubt men may easily think too little of God the Father, and God the Spirit, but no man ever thought too much of Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Too Much, Christ, Persons

  "Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew".

• The love of our Lord Jesus Christ towards sinners is strikingly shown in His steady purpose of heart to die for them.

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Heart, Purpose

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.350, Editora Dracaena

• Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.

  J. C. Ryle

  Men, Judgment, Christ

• The chief end for which He lived and died was to provide eternal redemption for mankind.

  J. C. Ryle

  Redemption, Christ, Ends

  "Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity".

• A saved soul has many sorrows. They have their share of bereavements, deaths, disappointments , crosses. What shall enable a believer to bear all this? Nothing but the consolation there is in Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Disappointment, Soul, Bereavement

• Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.

  J. C. Ryle

  Might, Christ, Ifs

  J.C. Ryle (2014). “Are You Ready For the End of Time?”, p.66, Ravenio Books

• Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.

  J. C. Ryle

  Laughter, Followers, World

  "Bible Commentary - The Gospel of John".

• What you think now about the cross of Christ, I cannot tell; but I can wish you nothing better than this - that you may be able to say with the apostle Paul, before you die or meet the Lord, 'God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.'

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Thinking, Wish

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity”, p.188, Ravenio Books

• The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.

  J. C. Ryle

  People, Christ, Wells

• If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.

  J. C. Ryle

  Speak, Christ, Ashamed

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.326, Letcetera Publishing

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