J. C. Ryle Christ Quotations

Sanctification is that inward spiritual work which the Lord Jesus Christ works in a man by the Holy Spirit when He calls him to be a true believer. He not only washes him from his sins in His own blood, but He also separates him from his natural love of sin and the world, puts a new principle in his heart and makes him practically godly in life.

All men ought to think of Christ because of the office Christ fills between God and man. He is the eternal Son of God through whom alone the Father can be known, approached, and served. He is the appointed Mediator between God and man through whom alone we can be reconciled with God, pardoned, justified, and saved.

All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one day to this earth with power and glory, and raise the dead from their graves. All shall come forth at His bidding. Those who would not move when they heard the church-going bell, shall obey the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God.

Follow Christ for His own sake, if you follow Him at all.

The doctrine of Christ crucified is the strength of a Minister. I, for one, would not be without it for all the world.

There is one subject in religion, about which you can never know too much. That subject is Jesus Christ the Lord.

A right heart leans on Christ, hangs on Christ, builds on Christ and cleaves to Christ.

It is not always those who have the most eminent gifts who are the most successful laborers for God. It is generally those who keep up closest communion with Christ and are most constant in prayer.

Christ is never fully valued, until sin is clearly seen.

Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.

Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness.

Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.

Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.

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

The chief end for which Christ lived and died: To provide eternal redemption for sinners.

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

Do we profess to love Christ? Then let us show it by our lives.

No person ever thought too much of Christ.

If you do not love Christ, let me plainly tell you what is the reason: You have no sense of debt to Him.

No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.

Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.

If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.

Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.