J. C. Ryle Quotes

One of the problems of modern society, or the post-Internet age, is that there are so many things bombarding us that we could care about. I think it's more important than ever to really get clear and focus on what's worth caring about and what's just noise or distraction.

A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.

You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

Time means nothing to me.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

All that Ruby said was so horribly true, she was leaving everything she cared for. She had laid up her treasures on earth only. She had lived solely for the little things of life, the things that pass, forgetting the great things that go onward into eternity bridging the gulf between the two lives and making of death a mere passing of one dwelling to the other. From twilight to unclouded day. ...it was no wonder her soul clung in blind helplessness to the only things she knew and loved.

Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

We who live in this nervous age would be wise to meditate on our lives and our days long and often before the face of God and on the edge of eternity. For we are made for eternity as certainly as we are made for time, and as responsible moral beings we must deal with both.

And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world.

Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity.

The greed for fruit misses the flower.

Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else.

God has a thousand-year calendar with only one day marked on it. It is marked “TODAY”.

Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke

The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

All ages are equidistant from eternity, and just as immediately accessible to God's presence.

Read not the Times, read the Eternities.

It's sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something that is totally insignificant in eternity.

Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it.

In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.

You can be distracted by your love life, by the baseball game, movies, by the nonsense. "Can I get my kid into this private school? Can I get this girl to go out with me Saturday night? Am I going to get the promotion in my office?" All this stuff, but in the end the universe burns out. So I think it's completely meaningless.