J. C. Ryle People Quotations

All converted people should labor to adorn the doctrine they profess by humility. If they can do nothing else, they can strive to be humble.

People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.

The minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man.

People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger of hell.

Weak, feeble and foolish as it may seem to people, the simple story of the Cross is enough for all mankind in every part of the globe.

Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins.

Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord's people.

Be very sure of this,-people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it only too well; they understand that it condemns their own behavior; they understand that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to judgment.

Millions of people profess and call themselves Christians, whom the Apostle Paul would not have called Christians at all.

The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.

People are backsliders on their knees long before they backslide openly in the eyes of the world.

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

I fear it is sometimes forgotten that God has married together justification and sanctification. They are distinct and different things, beyond question, but one is never found without the other. All justified people are sanctified, and all sanctified people are justified. ... Tell me not of your justification, unless you have also some marks of sanctification. Boast not of Christ's work for you, unless you can show us the Spirit's work in you.

A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.

People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.

We know but little of true Christianity, if we don't feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.

Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations.