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Life Quotes by J C Ryle
- Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can…
- We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.
- To be born again is, as it were, to enter upon a new existence, to have a new mind, a new heart, new views, new…
- 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…
- Doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse than useless; it does positive harm. Something of 'the image…
- To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them…
- Read the Bible daily. Make it part of your everyday business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Gather your manna fresh…
- If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our…
- Just as the telescope and microscope show us that there is order and design in all the works of God’s hand, from the greatest planet…
- We must cast away everything which hinders us upon our road towards heaven – the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye and…
- Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of…
- We have no reason to be discouraged and cast down if the religion we profess is not popular and few agree with us. We must…
- Blessed are they who feel like pilgrims and strangers in this life, and whose best things are all to come!
- Abide in Me says Jesus. Cling to Me. Stick fast to Me. Live the life of close and intimate communion with Me. Get nearer to…
- People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.
- No salvation without regeneration - no spiritual life without a new birth - no heaven without a new heart.
- Prayer is the very life-breath of true Christianity.
- 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…
- Hearken, my believing reader. What is the cause of your weakness? Is it not because the fountain of life is little used? Is it not…
- Instruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children will never believe…
- The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his…
- Sanctification is that inward spiritual work which the Lord Jesus Christ works in a man by the Holy Spirit when He calls him to be…
- Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle