J. C. Ryle Quotes

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal patterns of the Bible. But the fact is I can no more abandon the literal patterns than I could fly to the moon. I just go beyond them.

The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.

Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.

The word for knowledge appears in the Koran more often than any other except God.

Let me tell you something you already know: reading is critically important - especially for Christian believers. God, after all, reveals Himself to us in the written words of Scripture. Think about it: when we read the Word, we place ourselves in the very presence of God.

We ought not to criticize, explain, or judge the Scriptures by our mere reason, but diligently, with prayer, meditate thereon, and seek their meaning.

God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.

Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight.

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

My book centers in on the New Testament, the goal being to help a person who wants to understand the Bible to see how what God did as revealed in the New Testament will reveal to them their own personal story.

Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it.

I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.

The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study.

The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me. So after that being unsatisfied in the thing, the Lord was pleased to bring this scripture out of the Hebrews.

Why would anyone walk through life satisfied with the light from the candle of their own understanding when, by reaching out to our Heavenly Father, they could experience the bright sun of spiritual knowledge that would expand their minds with wisdom and fill their souls with joy?

The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.

Each week, from a different point of view, you get another look at God, and that's exciting to me.

According to God's word, everybody at some point is going to be given the opportunity to know the truth.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.