J.C. Ryle: Quotes about Christ

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J.C. Ryle: 124 quotes11 likes

“If you desire salvation, and want to know what to do, I advise you to go this very day to the Lord Jesus Christ, in the first private place you can find, and earnestly and heartily entreat him in prayer to save your soul. Tell him that you have heard that he receives sinners, and he has said, "Him that comes unto me I will in nowise cast out." Tell him that you are a poor vile sinner, and that you come to him on the faith of his own invitation. Tell him you put yourself wholly and entirely in his hands: that you feel vile and helpless, and hopeless in yourself: and that except he saves you, you have no hope of being saved at all. Beseech him to deliver you from guilt, the power, and the consequences of sin. Beseech him to pardon you, and wash you in his own blood. Beseech him to give you a new heart, and plant the Holy Spirit in your soul. Beseech him to give you grace and faith and will and power to be his disciple and servant from this day forever. Oh, reader, go this very day, and tell these things to the Lord Jesus Christ, if you are really in earnest about your soul.”

A Call To Prayer (first published 1840).

“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.”

“Grant that the Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible is God's truth, and I know not in what way you can escape the doctrine that there is salvation only in Christ. From the liberality which says every body is right — from the charity which forbids you to say any body is wrong—from the peace which is bought at the expense of truth, may the good Lord deliver you.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 528.

“Remember that you are to venture the whole salvation of your soul on Christ, and on Christ only. You are to cast loose completely and entirely from all other hopes and trusts. You are not to rest partly on Christ and partly on doing all you can. In the matter of your justification Christ is to be all.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 591.

“Before Christ comes, it is useless to expect to see a perfect Church.”

Source: Practical Religion (1878), Ch. XX: "The Great Separation", p. 449

“The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.”

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Luke (1858–1859), Vol. II, Luke XXII: 54–62, p. 438

“The heart that has really tasted the grace of Christ, will instinctively hate sin.”

Vol. II, Luke XIX: 1–10, p. 294
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Luke (1858–1859)

“Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.”

Vol. II, Luke XI: 21–26, p. 25
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Luke (1858–1859)

“We must give up the idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ's steps, and let the world say what it likes.”

Vol. I, Luke VII: 31–35, p. 230
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Luke (1858–1859)

“Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.”

"What Think You of the Cross?", p. 276
Startling Questions (1853)

“The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must "plead guilty" before God can declare us innocent.”

Source: Knots Untied (1877), Ch. XII: "Confession", p. 261

“Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.”

Vol. II, John XII: 20–26, p. 334
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. John (1865–1873)