Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.
— J. C. Ryle
Growing in Grace
When I speak of a man growing in grace, I mean simply this – that his sense of sin is becoming deeper, his faith stronger, his hope brighter, his love more extensive, his spiritual mindedness more marked.
— J. C. Ryle
Perfection
Have we ever seen holier men than the martyred John Bradford, or Hooker, or Usher, or Baxter, or Rutherford, or M’Cheyne? Yet no one can read the writings and letters of these men without seeing that they felt themselves “debtors to mercy and grace” every day, and the very last thing they ever laid claim to was perfection!
— J. C. Ryle
Prayerlessness
Bibles read without prayer, sermons heard without prayer, engagements to marriage without prayer, travel undertaken without prayer, homes chosen without prayer, friendships formed without prayer, the daily act of private prayer itself hurried over or gone through without heart – these are the kind of downward steps by which many a Christian descends to a condition of spiritual paralysis, or reaches the point where God allows him to have a tremendous fall.
— J. C. Ryle
The Gospel
The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues — but to be seen in our lives.
— J. C. Ryle
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