J. C. Ryle Quotes

This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal.

I'm a representative of something that's greater than myself. I'm not just representing myself or my country: I'm representing Christ and what He's done through me.

The children of God all have a cross to bear. A suffering Savior generally has suffering disciples.

If we think the main mission of the church is to improve life in Adam and add a little moral strength to this fading evil age, we have not yet understood the radical condition for which Christ is such a radical solution.

Jesus Christ lives. He is our Savior, our Redeemer. He is a glorious, resurrected being. He has the capacity to communicate love that is so powerful, so overwhelming as to surpass the capacity of the human tongue to express adequately. He gave His life to break the bonds of death. His Atonement made fully active the plan of happiness of His Father in Heaven.

The Cross of Christ is the crux of history. Without the Cross, history cannot be defined or corrected.

There is no way of salvation except through the cross of Christ.

He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.

In his (Christ's) surrender on the cross all the pain and agony of mankind was concentrated at a single point, and passed through from death to immortality, There is no pain of any creature from the beginning to the end of time which was not 'known' at this point and thus transmuted. To know all things in the Word is thus to know all the suffering of the world transfigured by the resurrection, somehow reconciled and atoned in eternal life. It was God's purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things on heaven and things on earth'.

The goal and target of our life is He, the Christ who awaits us -- each one singly and altogether -- to lead us across the boundaries of time to the eternal embrace of the God who loves us.

Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable; He did not come to improve the improvable; He did not come to reform the reformable. None of those things works.

There is no death of sin without the death of Christ.

Creation cost Him nothing; salvation cost Him everything.

The cost of redemption cannot be overstated. The wonders of grace cannot be overemphasized. Christ took the hell He didn't deserve so we could have the heaven we don't deserve.

The gospel is the good news that the everlasting and ever-increasing joy of the never-boring, ever-satisfying Christ is ours freely and eternally by faith in the sin-forgiving death and hope-giving resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead.

Christ became one of us to redeem all of us.

Jesus did not die just to give us peace and a purpose in life; he died to save us from the wrath of God.

The proper task of the Savior is that he is a savior; indeed, for this he came into the world: to seek and save what was lost.

The cross of Christ is the true ground and chief cause of Christian hope.

To identify with the death of Jesus Christ means that we must die to everything that was never a part of Him.

When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for another; it was the life of God poured out to redeem the world.

If you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to him.

You need not to know much about Heaven-it is where Christ is, and that is Heaven enough for us.