J. C. Ryle
J. C. Ryle
John Charles Rylewas the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth10 May 1816
hands parent trying
The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.
spring oil heaven
The cross is the foundation of the Bible: If you have not yet found out that Christ crucified is the foundation of the whole volume, you have hitherto read your Bible to very little profit. Your religion is a heaven without a sun, an arch without a keystone, a compass without a needle, a clock without a spring or weights, a lamp without oil. It will not comfort you; it will not deliver your soul from hell.
spiritual book reading
Let it be a settled principle in our minds, in reading the Bible, that Christ is the central sun of the whole book. So long as we keep Him in view, we shall never greatly err in our search for spiritual knowledge. Once losing sight of Christ, we shall find the whole Bible dark and full of difficulty.
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.
doctrine human-nature offensive
Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.
heart devil world
Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray.
jesus war thinking
The rulers of the earth plan, and scheme, and make laws, and change laws, and war, and pull down one, and raise up another. But they little think that they rule only by the will of Jesus, and that nothing happens without the permission of the Lamb of God.
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.
jesus heart broken
The temple in which the Lord Jesus delights most, is a broken and contrite heart, renewed by the Holy Spirit.
prayer devil sin
Prayer is the surest remedy against the devil and besetting sins.
jesus prayer giving
Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer... He may sometimes keep us long waiting...but He will never send us empty away.
mercy-of-god joy heaven
That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.