J. C. Ryle Quotes

Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.

A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

Everybody has a sinful nature pulling them at every turn.

There aren't demons flying around with horns, people are demons.

We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.

"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.

The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood.

Though Satan instils his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements.

The devil is no longer looking for an open door in your life. He will take any crack you give him.

Every man has his devilish minutes.

The seed of every sin is in every heart.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.

The Devil dances in an empty pocket.

Satan is busily at work in our crowded cities.

Anyone who tells you to deny yourself is from Satan.