J. C. Ryle Quotes

If you look at the gospel, it just doesn't break things apart. The gospel brings things together. One of the great demonstration of the gospel's power is reconciliation.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

From the beginning, Christianity has struggled to sustain the creative tension between the personal appropriation of the gospel and the gospel's universal reach.

Christianity has found its triumphs and shown its fruits in every nation and tribe upon the globe; and its results have been in every case the same. Virtue, social order, prosperity, blessedness, the elevation and improvement, in all respects, of the human life, are the uniform and exclusive inheritance of those who receive the gospel.

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.

The Gospel is called the good news. My message is a message of hope, that's God's [message] for you.

I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news.

Jesus did not come to strike a balance between grace and truth. He brought the full measure of both.

We must learn to share the gospel in ways that show it is both GOOD and NEWS. The gospel is about what God has done for us and what we can become in Christ

Once God saves us He doesn't move us beyond the gospel, but He moves us more deeply into the gospel.

The gospel tells that our Judge has become our Savior.

Tens of thousands, perhaps millions, have come into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ, and they have not been saved.

Nothing but Christianity will give you the victory. Until a man believes in his heart that Jesus Christ is his Lord and Master... his course through life will be neither safe nor pleasant. My only regret is that I was so long blinded by my pleasures, my vices and pursuits, and the examples of others that I was kept fr...om seeing, admiring, and adoring the marvelous light of the gospel.

The Gospel is not an alternative, it’s an ultimatum.

Come as you are. If you are the blackest soul out of hell, trust Christ, and that act of trust shall make you clean.

I don't preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person.

Only the #‎ gospel can do two seemingly contradictory things: destroy pride and increase courage.

Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.

Christmas begins what Easter celebrates. The child in the cradle became the king on the cross. And because he did, there are no marks on my record. Just grace. His offer has no fine print. He didn't tell me, "Clean up before you come in." He offered, "Come in, and I'll clean you up." It's not my grip on him that matters but his grip on me. And his grip is sure. So is his presence in my life.

Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.

You know, eternal life does not start when we go to heaven. It starts the moment you reach out to Jesus. He never turns His back on anyone. And He is waiting for you.

To be Christians under the law of grace does not mean to wander unbridled outside the law, but to be engrafted in Christ, by whose grace we are free from the curse of the law, and by whose Spirit we have the law engraved upon our hearts.

Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.