J. C. Ryle Quotes

I'm pretty well grounded in Christian principles.

We never claimed to be a Christian band; we just were outspoken about our faith. It's not like we knew there was a scene.

My Christian faith has guided me.

Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.

I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ

Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.

The Christian church was designed to make sinners sweat. I have always believed that, and I still believe it. The messages preached in our churches should make backslidden Christians sweat. And if I achieve that objective when I preach, I thank God with all of my heart, no matter what people think of me.

Monsieur, sit down; listen to me. I am not a heathen, I am not hard-hearted, I am not unchristian, I am not dangerous, as they tell you; I would not trouble your faith; you believe in God and Christ and the Bible, and so do I.

Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that. The more people see us and come to know us, the more I believe they will come to realize that we are trying to exemplify in our lives and in our living the great ideals which (Jesus Christ) taught.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Until we believe that we are as bad as God says we are, we can never believe that He will do for us what He says He will do. Right here is where popular religion breaks down.

I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen

If thou hast sinned, lie not down without repentance; for the want of repentance, after one has sinned, makes the heart yet harder and harder.

We are all sinners. But may the Lord not let us be hypocrites. Hypocrites don’t know the meaning of forgiveness, joy and the love of God.

A man who fears not God, will break all his laws with an easy conscience, but one who is the favorite of heaven, who has been indulged to sit at royal banquets, who knows the eternal love of God to him, cannot bear that there should be any evil way in him that might grieve the Spirit and bring dishonor to the name of Christ. A very little sin, as the world calls it, is a very great sin to a truly awakened Christian.

I've been an evangelistic Baptist all my life and still am to some degree.

How many people do you know believe they're going to heaven because, they're not trusting so much in Christ as they are the sincerity of the decision they made a long time ago?

A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.

I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come, And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker.

We’re Bible-thumpers who just happened to end up on television. You put in your article that the Robertson family really believes strongly that if the human race loved each other and they loved God, we would just be better off. We ought to just be repentant, turn to God, and let’s get on with it, and everything will turn around.

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.

Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.