J. C. Ryle Quotes

Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.

The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.

In the winter, things are dead and dull, but then there is an explosion of life. That's what He promises people who believe in His Son. That's what all the Robertsons are banking on.

If any man be in Christ, he's a new preacher. The old things are passed away and all things become new.

Salvation is by repentance and faith, and if you have truly believed unto salvation, you have been regenerated, which means you have become a new creature, and you are going to live a different life. And so works do not result in salvation.

We believe that the first time we're born, as children, it's human life given to us; and when we accept Jesus as our Savior, it's a new life. That's what "born again" means.

No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul.

God's plan is not to abandon this world, the world which he said was "very good." Rather, he intends to remake it. And when he does he will raise all his people to new bodily life to live in it. That is the promise of the Christian gospel.

We cannot go back in time and change the past, but we can repent. The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret and remove the burden of our sins. His Atonement allows us to leave the past behind and move forward with clean hands, a pure heart, and a determination to do better and especially to become better.

Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance.

The Gospel comes in power and the Holy Spirit, with much assurance. If you call upon the name of the Lord, God will transform you on the inside, give you the shock of your life, and give you everlasting life on top of that.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

There's still time for redemption if I live long enough, don't you think?

Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise.'

Total immersion in and saturation with the Savior's gospel are essential steps in the process of being born again.

I came to Christ in my early 20s.

It's like every day I'm born anew, without Jesus.

Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain exaltation and eternal life.

I have a second chance on life.

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

Honestly, when I read the Scriptures, I really believe the Lord puts a heart in us when we become believers.

As I read the New Testament, I find only one path to salvation - the path of an informed faith in Jesus Christ.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

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

The day we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior is one of the greatest days of our lives. Not only are our sins washed away, but God puts His Spirit inside of us and gives us new desires.