J. C. Ryle Quotes

The reason for your entire salvation, the design behind your deliverance, the purpose for which God chose you in the first place is holiness.

Only the holy spirit, the spirit of the lord, can transform us.

For Christians, they need to access the power of Jesus and not look at Christianity as a religion. It is our Lord Jesus that makes you change, and Christians need to actualize it and put it into practice.

Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.

As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

No one comes face to face with God and remains unchanged.

We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us.

Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin.

How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.

Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.

People pour themselves into their own doctrines, and God has to blast them out of their preconceived ideas before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.

The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,'...a transformed life).

Sanctification grows out of faith in Jesus Christ. Reemember holiness is a flower, not a root; it is not sanctification that saves, but salvation that sanctifies.

The religion of a sinner stands on two pillars; namely, what Christ did for us in the flesh, and what he performs in us by his Spirit. Most errors arise from an attempt to separate these two.

Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.

When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.

Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you.

None can know their election but by their conformity to the image of Christ; for all that are chosen are chosen to sanctification.

Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one melt the other, that into the next higher, that into mind, that into spirit, and then you are spirit.