J. C. Ryle Quotes

The glory of God always comes at the sacrifice of self.

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.

We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.

That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People.

Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around.

If churches around the world would grasp the revolutionary truth that Christ's transforming power always comes through sacrifice and weakness, it would dramatically alter the landscape of the global church.

Jesus viewed his own destiny - to be glorified in and through death - as an expression of a kind of cosmic principle: the pathway to life runs through death.

Saint Mochua was the son of a certain Cronan, of noble race, and spent his youth in fighting. At the age of thirty, he laid aside his arms and burnt a house, with all its contents, which had been given to him by his uncle, saying that a servant of Christ should take nothing from sinners.

For me, it is one of the 'signs of the times' that the idea of God's mercy is becoming increasingly central and dominant.

In order to mount to the Cross, the summit of sacrifice, and to God, the summit of immateriality, Christ passed through all the stages which the man who struggles passes through.

My life is such a contradiction. My soul yearns for holiness and then runs from the mortification necessary to attain it.

My understanding of my faith is that - through a Christian framework - part of what we are called to do is to lay down our own self-interests, after the model of divinity that comes into this world in the form of Christ and lays down his life. And in order to do that, you have to care about something or someone more than yourself.

True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others.

A cross borne in simplicity, without the interference of self-love to augment it, is only half a cross. Suffering in this simplicity of love, we are not only happy in spile of the cross, but because of it; for love is pleased in suffering for the Well Beloved, and the cross which forms us into His image is a consoling bond of love.

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.

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

It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.

Crucified preaching only can give life. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified man.

All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.

How much are you worth? Jesus says, with his arms stretched out on the cross, "I'm willing to die for you, because you mean this much to me."

The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both.

When you realize that every breath is a gift from God. When you realize how small you are, but how much he loved you. That he, Jesus, would die, the son of God himself on earth, then you...you just weep.

The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.

No other God have I but thee, born in a manger, died on a tree.

Jesus is hungry but feeds others; He grows weary but offers others rest; He is the King Messiah but pays tribute; He is called the devil but casts out demons; He dies the death of a sinner but comes to save His people from their sins; He is sold for thirty pieces of silver but gives His life a ransom for many; He will not turn stones to bread for Himself but gives His own body as bread for people.