J. C. Ryle Quotes

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

Protect me from what I want.

I've always been strong-minded, but I wonder.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

I struggle with control.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

I struggle with pride every day, but the one thing that I try to remind myself everyday is that I'm still a sinner no matter how many points/assists/win I get on the court.

One of my worst fears is being a self-indulgent person.

I'm highly critical of myself. There's not something someone else might say that makes me feel I need to be motivated in a different way. I'm a self-motivated guy.

Sometimes I wish I was less of a maniac; sometimes I wish I was more.

Two people live within me. One's a very savvy businessperson; the other's a party girl.

Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.

Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.

Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.

Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.

I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

If thou wouldst be implacable, be so with thyself.