J.C. Ryle: Quotes about heart

J.C. Ryle was Anglican bishop. Explore interesting quotes on heart.
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“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.”

J.C. Ryle

A Call To Prayer (first published 1840).

Faith , Hope , Feeling , Soul

“Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.”

J.C. Ryle

Source: A Call to Prayer

Heart , Dependency , Happiness

“Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.”

J.C. Ryle

Source: A Call to Prayer

Heart

“A holy man will follow after purity of heart. He will dread all filthiness and uncleanness of spirit, and seek to avoid all things that might draw him into it. He knows his own heart is like tinder, and will diligently keep clear of the sparks of temptation. Who shall dare to talk of strength when David can fall? There is many a hint to be gleaned from the ceremonial law. Under it the man who only touched a bone or a dead body or a grave or a diseased person became at once unclean in the sight of God.”

J.C. Ryle

Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots (first published 1879).

God , Disease , Law , Heart

“When does the building of the Spirit really begin to appear in a man's heart? It begins, so far as we can judge, when he first pours out his heart to God in prayer.”

J.C. Ryle

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 470.

God , Appearance , Heart

“Examine your own hearts. Do you see there any habit or custom which you know is wrong in the sight of God? If you do, don't delay for a moment in attacking it. Resolve at once to lay it aside. Nothing darkens the eyes of the mind so much, and deadens the conscience so surely, as an allowed sin. It may be a little one, but it is not any less dangerous.”

J.C. Ryle

Thoughts for Young Men.

God , Heart

“It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.”

J.C. Ryle

Mark VII: 1–13, p. 136
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Mark (1857)

Home , Heart

“The heart is the part of man which God chiefly notices in religion.”

J.C. Ryle

Mark VII: 1–13, p. 136
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Mark (1857)

God , Religion , Parting , Heart

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

J.C. Ryle

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

Hate , Christ , Heart

“However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.”

J.C. Ryle

Vol. I, Luke V: 12–16, p. 137
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Luke (1858–1859)

Past , Hope , Heart

“Let your Christianity be so unmistakeable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are and whom you serve.”

J.C. Ryle

Source: Old Paths (1878), Ch. V: "Alive or Dead", p. 145

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