Quotes by John Charles Ryle
John Charles Ryle (1816–1900) — Bischof und Autor · Anglikanisch · England
John Charles Ryle (1816–1900) war ein englischer Geistlicher, Autor und der erste anglikanische Bischof von Liverpool. Als Vertreter des evangelikalen Flügels der Church of England wandte er sich gegen den Anglo-Katholizismus sowie den theologischen Liberalismus und betonte die Autorität der Heiligen Schrift sowie die Notwendigkeit praktischer Heiligung. Heutigen Bibellesern begegnen seine Auslegungen und Schriften als leicht verständliche, seelsorgerliche Texte mit reformatorischem Schwerpunkt auf der Rechtfertigung allein aus Glauben.
Era: Revival & the 19th Century
Recurring topics: Grace & Redemption, Faith & Trust, Hope & Confidence, Prayer & Silence, Temptation & Struggle, Growth & Character, Discipleship, The Bible & the Word of God
Quotes by John Charles Ryle
The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.
John Charles Ryle
Blessed is the man who has learned to rest from his own works and to boast in nothing but the cross of Christ!
John Charles Ryle
With Christ there are no hopeless cases.
John Charles Ryle
If we seek comfort in our own love for Christ, we build on a sandy foundation. But if we rest on Christ's love for us, we stand on rock.
John Charles Ryle
Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
John Charles Ryle
No soldiers of Christ are ever lost, missing or left dead on the battlefield.
John Charles Ryle
Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
John Charles Ryle
Tomorrow is the devil’s day, but today is God’s. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.
John Charles Ryle
Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer… He may sometimes keep us long waiting…but He will never send us empty away.
John Charles Ryle
We are evidently no friends of Satan. Like the kings of this world, he wars not against his own subjects. The very fact that he assaults us should fill our minds with hope.
John Charles Ryle
Even when our faith is small, the Lord is ready to help us.
John Charles Ryle
Precisely in the darkest times, true Christians may rest in the thought that he who is for them is greater than all who can be against them.
John Charles Ryle
Grace is better than gifts, and faith is better than knowledge.
John Charles Ryle
We forget that no church on earth has an absolute monopoly on all wisdom, and that people can be right in the main without agreeing with us.
John Charles Ryle
It is possible to imagine we have the Bible on our side and to justify our conduct with Bible quotations, and yet to commit grave errors.
John Charles Ryle
Zeal without knowledge is like an army without a general, and like a ship without a rudder.
John Charles Ryle
Preaching about 'the things which are not seen' will have little effect if life preaches the importance of 'the things that are seen.'
John Charles Ryle
There are few Christians who can carry a full cup with a steady hand.
John Charles Ryle
He who has gifts without grace is dead in sins, however great his gifts may be. But he who has grace without gifts is alive to God, however uneducated and ignorant he may appear to men.
John Charles Ryle
The sheep in the Lord's flock all have their own peculiarities.
John Charles Ryle
If Christ is ours, then we have everything and have abundance.
John Charles Ryle
However strong the devil may be, Christ can yet snatch his captives from his hand and break the chains that bind them.
John Charles Ryle
Let us never despair of the salvation of others as long as they are alive. Let us mention them night and day before the Lord and cry out to him for them.
John Charles Ryle
Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to life.
John Charles Ryle
Often it is the prayers we are least satisfied with that please God the most.
John Charles Ryle
Those who, like Moses, intercede on the mountain, accomplish as much for the Lord's cause as those who, like Joshua, stand in the midst of the battle.
John Charles Ryle
Assurance after all is no more than a full-grown faith; a masculine faith that grasps Christ’s promise with both hands – a faith that argues like the good centurion, if the Lord “speak the word only,” I am healed. Wherefore then should I doubt? (Matt. 8:8).
John Charles Ryle
Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
John Charles Ryle
Prayer and sin can never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
John Charles Ryle
Christ’s love towards us, and not our love towards Christ, is the true ground of expectation, and true foundation of hope.
John Charles Ryle
Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear… Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.
John Charles Ryle
How can we love sin, when we remember that because of our sins Jesus died?
John Charles Ryle
Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.
John Charles Ryle
Nothing whatever, whether great or small, can happen to a believer, without God’s ordering and permission. There is no such thing as “chance,” “luck” or “accident” in the Christian’s journey through this world. All is arranged and appointed by God. And all things are “working together” for the believer’s good.
John Charles Ryle
There is no commentary that opens up the Bible so much as sickness and sorrow.
John Charles Ryle
To be tempted is in itself no sin. It is the yielding to the temptation, and giving it a place in our hearts, which we must fear.
John Charles Ryle
Vague, and indefinite, and indistinct religion may do very well in time of health. It will never do in the day of sickness.
John Charles Ryle
True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person - Jesus Christ.
John Charles Ryle
The secret of a vigorous and powerful daily Christianity is to be always looking to Jesus.
John Charles Ryle
One single soul saved shall outlive and outweigh all the kingdoms of the world.
John Charles Ryle
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