J. C. Ryle Quotes

God has loved you since before you were born-so much so that 2,000 years ago, He sent His Son Jesus to die in your place.

There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or try to love) stupid and disagreeable people because they need us. This second kind is the more divine because that is how God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give.

If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.

Do you feel more loved when God makes much of you or do you feel more loved when God at the cost of His Son allows you to make much of Him?

God always wants what's best for us, just as you want what's best for someone you really love. You put them before you, and God does that too. God puts us before His Son, who He sacrificed for our salvation. But the Son did it voluntarily because He has the love of the Father before us.

Nothing like one honest look, one honest thought of Christ upon His cross. That tells us how much He has been through, how much He endured, how much He conquered, how much God loved us, who spared not His only begotten Son, but freely gave Him for us. Dare we doubt such a God? Dare we murmur against such a God?

My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?'

We know that God works for all things together for the good of those who love Him and that God is faithful. We will fail God, we will fail our family and our family might fail us at times, but God never fails us.

The only reason you can love God or anybody else is because God first loved you. And he showed that love by sending Jesus Christ to Earth to die for you.

The highest act of love is the giving of the best gift, and, if necessary, at the greatest cost, to the least deserving. That's what God did. At the loss of His Son's life to the totally undeserving, God gave the best gift - the display of the glory of Christ who is the image of God.

You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.

God would rather give up His son..than give up on us

We always get into trouble when we doubt God's love, because when we don't trust him, we don't obey him.

Our salvation comes to us so easily because it cost God so much.

If God was willing to wrap himself in rags and drink from a mother's breast, then all questions about his love for us are off the table.

The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.

For we love not God first, to compel him to love again; but he loved us first, and gave his Son for us, that we might see love and love again, saith St John in his first epistle.

And the reason is found in the first lie - the lie which you hold as the truth about God - that God cannot be trusted; that God's love cannot be depended upon; that God's acceptance of you is conditional; that the ultimate outcome is thus in doubt. For if you cannot depend on God's love to always be there, on whose love can you depend? If God retreats and withdraws when you do not perform properly, will not mere mortals also?

God's love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.

The willingness of God to sacrifice his Son to reconcile us to himself is a demonstration of his love for us.

God's unfailing love for us is an objective fact affirmed over and over in the Scriptures. It is true whether we believe it or not. Our doubts do not destroy God's love, nor does our faith create it. It originates in the very nature of God, who is love, and it flows to us through our union with His beloved Son.

The tender Mercy of God has given us one another.

By accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey.