J. C. Ryle Quotes

The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going.

We wouldn't think of rising in the morning without a face-wash, but we often neglect that purgative cleansing of the Word of the Lord. It wakes us up to our responsibility.

"If any man thirst, let him come and drink from the rivers of living water" (cf. John 7:38). Where shall he who thirsts come? To heretics where the fountain and river of water is in no way life-giving? Or to the Church, which is One?

The church can have light only as it is full of the Spirit, and it can be full only as the members that compose it are filled individually.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn't mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

I believe in prayer and in strong belief.

I'm still going to make mistakes, but I don't have any problems with publicly professing my faith now. It just took me a long time to get to the right place in my relationship with Christ.

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

We all have that power to have a soul that magnifies God.

I don't think there's anyone who would say they don't want or need more of God's power in their life.

As you read or listen to God's Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

The spiritually starving hesitate to partake of the Spirit like a child's reaction to new and strange food. They must be offered a tiny bite on a spoon.

Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late - and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work.

A church should be a camp of soldiers, not an hospital of invalids. But there is exceedingly much difference between what ought be and what is, and consequently many of God's people are in so sad a state that the very fittest prayer for them is for revival.

Prayer, as a means of drawing ever new strength from Christ, is concretely and urgently needed.

It is the Spirit alone that can mortify sin; he is promised to do it, and all other means without him are empty and vain. How shall he, then, mortify sin that has not the Spirit? A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.

The reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they had dead men preaching to them. O that the Lord may quicken and revive them! How can dead men beget living children?

The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.

A revival is the church falling in love with Jesus Christ all over again.

When I put God first, God takes care of me and energizes me to do what really needs to be done.

All the hope of our ministry lies in the Spirit of God operating on the spirits of men.

A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember that you stand in somebody else's way; you are a fruitless tree standing where a fruitful tree might grow.

The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.