J. C. Ryle Quotes

Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin.

A lack of doxology leads to depravity.

The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

Our minds are affected by sin. Our hearts are affected by sin. Our wills are affected by sin. Our bodies are affected by sin.

Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to be good so that we could go to Paradise.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.

To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.

Feast of the Holy Cross Does not every man feel, that there is corruption enough within him to drive him to the commission of the greatest enormities, and eternally to destroy his soul?

To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.

The worst corruption is a corrupt religion.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

We are perfect. According to God, we are perfect, yet we know that we are sinners. We believe in the fact that we are both saints and sinners at the same time as we live in this world.

God is good.

The Bible is full of wealth, miracles, goodness and badness.

Classical theology defines sin as 'rebellion against God.' The answer is not incorrect as much as it is shallow and insulting to the human being. Every person deserves to be treated with dignity even if he or she is a 'rebellious sinner'.

Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less.

He that hath slight thoughts of sin, never had great thoughts of God.

Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.

When we believe that God is something other than a lover, it is inevitable that we will sin.