J.C. Ryle

Do something, by God's help, to make heaven more full and hell more empty.

Hell itself is truth known too late.

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.

Our Lord has many weak children in His family, many dull pupils in His school, many raw soldiers in His army, and many lame sheep in His flock. Yet He bears with them all, and casts none away.

There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven — the crucified Son of God.

Ignorance of Scripture is the root of every error in religion, and the source of every heresy.

Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

The heart that has really tasted the grace of Christ, will instinctively hate sin.

We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family-disease of all the children of Adam.

Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.

It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.

The heart is the part of man which God chiefly notices in religion.

It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.

Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be got by hard, regular, daily, attentive, wakeful reading.

There is more to be learned at the foot of the cross than anywhere else in the world.

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

All the sciences in the world never smoothed down a dying pillow. No earthly philosophy ever supplied hope in death.

A hopeful growing believer is a walking sermon. He preaches far more than I do, for he preaches all the week round, shaming the unconverted, sharpening the converted, showing to all what grace can do.

Salvation in Christ to the very uttermost, but out of Christ no salvation at all.

Remember that you are to venture the whole salvation of your soul on Christ, and on Christ only. You are to cast loose completely and entirely from all other hopes and trusts.