J. C. Ryle Quotes

Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.

I do believe that I will see the apocalypse in my lifetime. And when it comes, I'm not repenting for anything I've done.

Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

… a walking day of judgment

At the end of the day, on the day of judgment day when everybody be judged, you're going to get your fair share.

Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.

The deeds we do, the words we say,Into still air they seem to fleet;We count them ever past;But they shall last -In the dread judgment theyAnd we shall meet.

To-morrow even may bring the final reckoning.

The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.

There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.

A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the lord in vain- then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?

When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.

What will you do when the Law of God comes in terror; when the trumpet of the archangel shall tear you from your grave; when the eyes of God shall burn their way into your guilty soul; when the great books shall be opened and all your sin and shame shall be punished... can you stand against an angry Law in that Day?

Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.

I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.

When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.'

Always pull back-and see how silly we must look to God.

I have never imagined being or wished to be chosen as something important in the world. I have always tried to be a humble servant of God and a humble member of humanity.

Opposition to God and His Christ, opposition to light and truth has existed since the beginning to the present day. This is the warfare that commenced in heaven, that has existed through all time, and that will continue until the winding up scene, until He reigns whose right it is to reign, when He shall come in clouds of glory to reward every man according to the deeds done in the body.

Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.

At the final judgment, everyone will stand before God alone.

No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.

Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again.