J. C. Ryle
J. C. Ryle
John Charles Rylewas the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth10 May 1816
believe ministers old-fashioned
I am one of those old-fashioned ministers who believe the whole Bible and everything that it contains.
school lessons affliction
There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.
men breathing world
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 men and women when they are born again is praying.
wise children men
He that has trained his children for heaven, rather than for earth- for God rather than for man- he is the parent who will be called wise at the last.
new-life outcomes principles
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 new principle and always lives a new life.
beautiful jesus writing
My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.
men heaven world
According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.
jesus heart broken
The temple in which the Lord Jesus delights most, is a broken and contrite heart, renewed by the Holy Spirit.
children prayer heart
Without the blessing of the Lord, your best endeavors will do no good. He has the hearts of all men in His hands, and except He touch the hearts of your children by His Spirit, you will weary yourself to no purpose. Water, therefore, the seed you sow on their minds with unceasing prayer.
children believe learning
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 you are in earnest, and really wish them to obey you, so long as your actions contradict your counsel... Think not your children will practise what they do not see you do. You are their model picture, and they will copy what you are... will seldom learn habits which they see you despise, or walk in paths in which you do not walk yourself.
heaven way hell
The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell.
heaven helping hell
Do something, by God’s help, to make heaven more full and hell more empty.
sickness good-things ifs
Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God.
darkness unions patient
Let us learn to be patient in the days of darkness, if we know anything of vital union with Christ.