J. C. Ryle
J. C. Ryle
John Charles Rylewas the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth10 May 1816
men best-of-me
The best of men are men at best
blessed stranger this-life
Blessed are they who feel like pilgrims and strangers in this life, and whose best things are all to come!
prayer hands weapons
Prayer is the mightiest weapon that God has placed in our hands.
thinking gone enough
Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors.
jesus moving peculiar
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 remember the words of our Lord Jesus Christ in this passage: ‘The gate is narrow’. Repentance, and faith in Christ, and holiness of life, have never been fashionable. The true flock of Christ has always been small. It must not move us to find that we are reckoned singular, and peculiar, and bigoted, and narrow minded. This is the ‘narrow way’. Surely it is better to enter into eternal life with a few, than to go to ‘destruction’ with a great company
christian men his-love
To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.
sin pleasant desirable
Sin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission.
men ignorant may
A man may commit sin and yet be ignorant of it, and fancy himself innocent when he is guilty... We shall do well to remember that when we make our own miserably imperfect knowledge and consciousness the measure of our sinfulness, we are on very dangerous ground.
men giving zealous
A zealous man feels that like a lamp he is made to burn; and if consumed in burning, he has but done the work for which God appointed him. Such a one will always find a sphere for his zeal. If he cannot preach and work and give money, he will cry and sigh and pray.
wings church decay
Churches may decay and perish; riches may make themselves wings and fly away-but he who builds their happiness on Christ crucified and union with Him by faith, that person is standing on a foundation which shall never be moved, and will know something of true peace.
heart acceptance men
The brightest saint is the man who has the most heart-searching sense of his own sinfulness, and the liveliest sense of his own complete acceptance in Christ.
jesus too-much christ
There is one subject in religion, about which you can never know too much. That subject is Jesus Christ the Lord.
prayer reading use-of-time
Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
may love-of-money
We may love money without having it, just as we may have money without loving it.