J. C. Ryle Quotes

I always go to church on Sundays and Bible study on Tuesdays.

If I'm home on Wednesdays, I go to Bible study. I get my God time in, definitely.

Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.

Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God.

I taught Sunday school when I was younger, and ended up an elder in the church, and it just seemed to me that a lot of people who went to church certainly weren't - the rest of the week - living what I would call an Christian life.

It's really important to me to go to church, which is sometimes tough when I get back from road trips late on Saturday night, but I try to make it a priority to go every week.

People who wear their religion on their sleeves talk a lot about going to Sunday school, reading the Bible, and doing good works. And I suppose there's no harm in that. But if I'd gone to the trouble to pull all this together ... and people never paid any attention to it, never bothered to try to find out how the world worked, then I think I'd get annoyed.

The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.

Many a professing Christian is a stumbling-block because his worship is divided. On Sunday he worships God; on weekdays God has little or no place in his thoughts.

The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.

We must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition.

It is more necessary than ever to intensify liturgical life ... by means of an appropriate formation ... of all the faithful.

Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.

Yes, fasting is not merely a commandment from God but a godly gift, a grace and a blessing. God the creator of our body and soul knows of our need to fast for its benefit for our spiritual life, development and our eternity. He granted us the knowledge and manner of fasting. As a kind Father and a wise Teacher, He has recommended fasting for us.

By praying ... If you want to pray better, you must pray more.

The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too.

I think we all have room to grow. I think every Christian really does need to take up their cross in a lot of areas of life and say, "Man, listen, regardless of what kind of backlash I'm going to get, I need to stand for what I believe in."

Discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ.

God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.

What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?

I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually devote to this reading the first hour after I rise every morning. As, including the Apocrypha, it contains about fourteen hundred chapters, and as I meet with occasional interruptions, when this reading is for single days, and sometimes for weeks, or even months, suspended, my rule is to read five chapters every morning, which leaves an allowance of about one-forth of the time for such interruptions.

Habit must play a larger place in our religious life. We worship when we feel like it, we pray when we feel like it. We read the Bible when we feel like it. Leaving our religious exercises to the promptings of impulse, we become creatures of impulse rather than soldiers of Christ. An army made up of creatures of impulse would be only a mob. So is a church.

Seek to know God in your closets, call upon him in the fields. Follow the directions of the Book of Mormon, and pray over, and for your families, your cattle, your flocks, your herds, your corn, and all things that you possess [see Alma 34:18-27]; ask the blessing of God upon all your labors, and everything that you engage in.

Now is the time to Start a Normal Christian Life!