Christ Quotes by J. C. Ryle

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

— J. C. Ryle

Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.

— J. C. Ryle

No person ever thought too much of Christ.

— J. C. Ryle

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

— J. C. Ryle

Follow Christ for His own sake, if you follow Him at all.

— J. C. Ryle

Before Christ comes it is useless to expect to see a perfect Church.

— J. C. Ryle

The heart that has really tasted the grace of Christ, will instinctively hate sin.

— J. C. Ryle

The key to understanding the Bible is Jesus Christ.

— J. C. Ryle

The brightest saint is the man who has the most heart-searching sense of his own sinfulness, and the liveliest sense of his…

— J. C. Ryle

The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.

— J. C. Ryle

When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance.

— J. C. Ryle

No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

— J. C. Ryle

Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him…

— J. C. Ryle

Prosperity is a great mercy, but adversity is a greater one, if it brings us to Christ.

— J. C. Ryle

Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to…

— J. C. Ryle

A right heart leans on Christ, hangs on Christ, builds on Christ and cleaves to Christ.

— J. C. Ryle

The resurrection of Christ is one of the foundation stones of Christianity. It was the seal of the great work that He…

— J. C. Ryle

Such true worship will stand the test of Christ's great principle, “By their fruits you shall know them”. It sanctifies the Christian's…

— J. C. Ryle

True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with…

— J. C. Ryle

Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches,…

— J. C. Ryle

If Christ had not gone to the cross and suffered in our stead, the just for the unjust, there would not have…

— J. C. Ryle

Churches may decay and perish; riches may make themselves wings and fly away-but he who builds their happiness on Christ crucified and…

— J. C. Ryle

There is something sadly wrong when it is more important to us whether others are a part of our denomination, rather than…

— J. C. Ryle

If men come among you who do NOT preach all the counsel of God, who do NOT preach of Christ, sin, holiness,…

— J. C. Ryle

Let us watch against pride in every shape - pride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride of our own goodness. Nothing is…

— J. C. Ryle

I fear it is sometimes forgotten that God has married together justification and sanctification. They are distinct and different things, beyond question,…

— J. C. Ryle

Sanctification is that inward spiritual work which the Lord Jesus Christ works in a man by the Holy Spirit when He calls…

— J. C. Ryle

Walk more closely with God. Get nearer to Christ. Seek to exchange hope for assurance. Seek to feel the witness of the…

— J. C. Ryle

We have no reason to be discouraged and cast down if the religion we profess is not popular and few agree with…

— J. C. Ryle

If we would be sanctified, our course is clear and plain—we must begin with Christ. We must go to him as sinners,…

— J. C. Ryle

Solid scriptural theology should be valued in the church. Books in which Scripture is reverently regarded as the only rule of faith…

— J. C. Ryle

All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one…

— J. C. Ryle

Christ is never fully valued, until sin is clearly seen.

— J. C. Ryle

Do we profess to love Christ? Then let us show it by our lives.

— J. C. Ryle

Before Christ comes, it is useless to expect to see the perfect church.

— J. C. Ryle

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

— J. C. Ryle

Let us learn to be patient in the days of darkness, if we know anything of vital union with Christ.

— J. C. Ryle

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

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

— J. C. Ryle

The chief end for which Christ lived and died: To provide eternal redemption for sinners.

— J. C. Ryle