J. C. Ryle Quotes

God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.

I have given God countless reasons not to love me. None of them has been strong enough to change Him.

The cross shows us the seriousness of our sin-but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

I hope that it can relate to and be a blessing to anybody, with the hope that someday they will find Jesus Christ to be the same God that I've found Him to be.

I needed a concept of God that worked for me, and I wound up giving my life to Jesus Christ. I thought I was always going to have to wear skirts over my knees, not be able to listen to music, and have no personality. Fortunately, it's so completely opposite.

The saving love of God is his doing whatever must be done, at great cost to himself, and for the least deserving, so that he might enthrall them with what will make them supremely happy forever, namely, himself.

If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love.

If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.

I would like everyone to feel loved by the God who gave his son for us and showed us his boundless love. I want everyone to feel the joy of being Christian.

I began to realize that when people experience the love of God, it casts out their fear and frees them from guilt.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

I marvel to think that the Son of God would condescend to save us, as imperfect, impure, mistake-prone, and ungrateful as we often are. I have tried to understand the Savior's Atonement with my finite mind, and the only explanation I can come up with is this: God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastingly.

Salvation and Christ's love is a gift. You don't earn it. You've got to receive that gift.

I'm telling you, God loves a lot of people.

Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.

It took me a long time to not think of the universe as a judgmental debit-credit system. I haven't completely shaken it, but I no longer think that I am overdrawn with God. Grace is not something you earn; its always there. I find this idea a lot more fun.

No matter how bad you mess up, God loves you, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Yes, I'm a miserable, wretched sinner, but He loves me. And to Him, I'm His child, and I can walk in that love and that understanding.

Cheer up: You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope.

The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.

Jesus loves sinners. He only loves sinners. He has never turned anyone away who came to Him for forgiveness, and He died on the cross for sinners, not for respectable people.

Grace is God's love in action for those who don't deserve it.

Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more . . . And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less