Category Archives: J. C. Ryle
Unmistakable Christianity
Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are and whom you serve.
Holiness Is a Habit
Holiness is the habit of being of one mind with God, according as we find his mind described in Scripture. It is the habit of agreeing in God’s judgment, heating what he hates, loving what he loves, and measuring everything in this world by the standard of his word.
It Will Be Worth It All
The presence and company of Christ will make amends for all we suffer here below. When we see as we have been seen, and look back on the journey of life, we shall wonder at our own faintness of heart. We shall marvel that we made so much of our cross, and thought so little of our crown. We shall marvel that in ‘counting the cross’ we could ever doubt on which side the balance of profit lay.
Are You in Danger of Becoming Too Good?
We can never have too much humility, too much faith in Christ, too much holiness, too much spirituality of mind, too much charity, too much zeal in doing good to others. Then let us be continually forgetting the things behind, and reaching forth unto the things before (Phil. 3.13). The best of Christians in these matters is infinitely below the perfect pattern of his Lord. Whatever the world may please to say, we may be sure there is no danger of any of us becoming “too good”.
A Worthless, Cheap Christianity
A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing! A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will provide in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
Our Desperate Need for Jesus Christ
Sin must indeed be exceeding sinful, when the Father must needs give His only Son to be the sinner’s friend.
J. C. Ryle, Do You Believe?
Prayerless, Christless, Godless
A praying Master, like Jesus, can have no prayerless servants. The Spirit of adoption will always make a man call upon God. To be prayerless is to be Christless, Godless, and in the high road to destruction.
J. C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on Mark (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2012), 14.
The Reason for Every Religious Error
Ignorance of Scripture is the root of every error in religion, and the source of every heresy.
HT: @mmattinglyjr
Life Is Worship 