J. C. Ryle Quotes

If I were to be responsible for guiding souls, I would urge everyone to be aware of God's constant presence, if for no other reason than His presence is a delight to our souls and spirit.

No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.

If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

I would say it simply: No one can give that which he doesn't personally possess, which means we cannot transmit the Holy Spirit in an effective way, render the Spirit perceptible, if we ourselves aren't close to the Spirit.

For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s.

No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.

I still think that God means everything to everyone, whether they understand it or not or can see for themselves.

In ancient, prehistoric times, the temples of the spirit were outwardly visible, but today, when our life has become so unspiritual, they no longer exist where we can see them with our physical eyes. Yet spiritually they are still present everywhere, and whoever seeks can find them.

God found me when I was at my lowest point. That was the first time in my life when I really felt like I understood who Jesus was - it was more than just knowing about Him: I felt like He met me in that time and place.

I am not asking whether you know things about Him but do you know God, are you enjoying God, is God the centre of your life, the soul of your being, the source of your greatest joy? He is meant to be.

God is a feeling experience and not a believing experience. If your religion is a believing experience ... then that's not truly God.

If you know Christ, you don't need to beg for the Holy Spirit to come into your life; He is already there- whether you "feel" His presence or not. Don't confuse the Holy Spirit with an emotional feeling or a particular type of spiritual experience.

Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.

For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not the better for having heard the truth.

The way of God's grace becomes indispensable when we realize that the way of God's law is inflexible.

I sometimes fear that we have so redefined conversion in terms of human decisions and have so removed any necessity of the experience of God’s Spirit, that many people think they are saved when in fact they only have Christian ideas in their head not spiritual power in their heart.

Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

Were I a preacher, I should preach above all other things, the practice of the Presence of God.... Those who have the gale of the Holy Spirit go forward, even in sleep.

At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware in himself, did not in the least hinder his turning to God. All of that now floated out of his soul like dust. To whom was he to turn if not to Him in whose hands he felt himself, his soul, and his love?

The call of God creates sight in us. It's the work of God in our hearts to awaken us before his word.