J.C. Ryle: Sin

J.C. Ryle was Anglican bishop. Explore interesting quotes on sin.
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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

“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

“So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.”

J.C. Ryle

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 297.

Happiness

“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

“Without a divine call no one can be saved. We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God, unless He first called us by His grace.”

J.C. Ryle

Mark II: 13–22, p. 31
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Mark (1857)

God , Wedding , World

“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

“Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.”

J.C. Ryle

Source: A Call to Prayer (1867), p. 16

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

J.C. Ryle

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

God , Christ