J.C. Ryle Quotes

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

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

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

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

Like infants, when they are born into the world, God's children are not born again in the full possession of their spiritual faculties; and it is well and wisely ordered that it is so. What we win easily, we seldom value sufficiently. The very fact that believers have to struggle and fight hard before they get hold of real soundness in the faith, helps to make them prize it more when they have attained it. The truths that cost us a battle are precisely those which we grasp most firmly, and never let go.

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

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

Christ's death is the Christian's life. Christ's cross is the Christian's title to heaven. Christ "lifted up" and put to shame on Calvary is the ladder by which Christians "enter into the holiest," and are at length landed in glory.