J. C. Ryle
J. C. Ryle
John Charles Rylewas the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth10 May 1816
sin ifs
If you and sin are friends, you and God are not yet reconciled.
reading important next
Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible-reading.
kings waiting looks
Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord...He waits quietly for the King.
mercy duty gods-will
We never know who they are that God will draw, and have nothing to do with it. Our duty is to invite all, and leave it to God to choose the vessels of mercy.
jesus heart medicine
Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.
imagination littles action
Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.
bible christian believe
Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.
sunday men clothes
The man who has nothing more than a kind of Sunday religion -- whose Christianity is like his Sunday clothes put on once a week, and then laid aside -- such a man cannot, of course, be expected to care about growth in grace.
jesus fighting grace
Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.
religious soul feelings
I declare I know no state of soul more dangerous than to imagine we are born again and sanctifiied by the Holy Spirit, because we have picked up a few religious feelings.
prayer grace may
Let us resolve by God's grace that, however feeble and poor our prayers may seem to us, we will pray on.
prayer firsts neglect
Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
practice self heaven
True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience.
preacher word-of-god seeds
The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.