Faith Quotes by J. C. Ryle

17 Faith quotes by J. C. Ryle

J. C. Ryle’s enduring insights on faith appear across seventeen succinct passages. His clear, earnest style offers readers a timeless look at belief and trust.

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If we would know whether our faith is genuine, we do well to ask ourselves how we are living.

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

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Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.

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True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.

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We must be holy, because this is the only sound evidence that we have a saving faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Troublous times, departures from the faith, evil men waxing worse and worse, love waxing cold, are things distinctly predicted.

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The faith that has not a sanctifying influence on the character is no better than the faith of devils.

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Doubting does not prove that a man has no faith, but only that his faith is small. And even when our faith…

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

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Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among…

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The Bible applied to the heart by the Holy Ghost is the chief means by which men are built up and established…

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Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How…

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The heart of a man can never be satisfied with the things of this world. It is always empty, and hungry, and…

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Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will…

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I must honestly declare my conviction that, since the days of the Reformation, there never has been so much profession of religion…

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True repentance is no light matter. It is a thorough change of heart about sin, a change showing itself in godly sorrow…

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Infidelity and skepticism abound everywhere. In one form or another they are to be found in every rank and class of society.…

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Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's book; I call upon you not to forget the book of the soul.…

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Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.

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The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.

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We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.

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The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.

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That Bible is read best, which is practised most.

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O Christian, look up and take comfort. Jesus has prepared a place for you, and those who follow Him shall never perish, neither shall…

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Let it be a settled principle ...that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of…

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