J. C. Ryle Quotes

Christ's followers cannot expect better treatment in the world than their Master had.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Christianity is greatest when it is hated by the world.

Jesus Christ was the most perfect being to ever walk this planet and he was persecuted and nailed to the cross … so please don’t be surprised when we get a little static.

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed by everything in the world and by the great majority of evangelicals. You're going to be opposed.

Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.

I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me.

Let us pray for the many Christians in the world who still suffer persecution and violence. May God grant them the courage of fidelity.

Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.

A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.

In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I'm gonna stand my ground, and I won't back down.

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.

Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.

Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists.

Nothing in the world is as fearsome as a bloody, battered opponent who will never surrender.

Sometimes it seems like you and me against the world.

I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do; and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.

While we sometimes feel and have felt in days that are past and gone, to complain because we meet with oppression, persecution, and affliction, yet I wish to say to my brethren and sisters that these things are the heritage of the Saints of God. … I have never read of the people of God in any dispensation passing through life, as the sectarian world would say, on flowery beds of ease, without opposition of any kind.

Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.

To throw the Christian into the furnace is to put him into Christ's parlor; for lo! Jesus Christ is walking with him.

But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.

The modern world seems to make fun of people in a lot of ways.

It's wonderful to be hated by idiots.