What They Said

"I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble."

"The Bible is thought of as authoritative on everything of which it speaks. Moreover, it speaks of everything. We do not mean that it speaks of football games, of atoms, etc., directly, but we do mean that it speaks of everything either directly or by implication. It tells us not only of the Christ and his work, but it also tells us who God is and where the universe about us has come from. It tells us about theism as well as about Christianity. It gives us a philosophy of history as well as history. Moreover, the information on these subjects is woven into an inextricable whole. It is only if you reject the Bible as the word of God that you can separate the so-called religious and moral instructions of the Bible from what it says, e.g., about the physical universe."

"We are not justifiedby doing good works, but being justified we then do good."

"In spiritual graces let us study to be great, and not to know it."

“It is a universal change of the whole man. It is a new creature, not only a new power, or new faculty: this, as well as creation, extends to every part, understanding, will, conscience, affections, all were corrupted by sin, all are renewed by grace. Grace sets up its ensigns in all parts of the soul, surveys every corner, and triumphs over every lurking enemy; it is as large in renewing, as sin was in defacing.”

"Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross. A man who teaches in this way might as well profess to explain the solar system, and yet tell his hearers nothing about the sun."

J.C. Ryle

 

"A greater hell I would not wish any man, than to live and not love the beloved of God."

"To be fearless in the Lord does not require us to be great and powerful men, but only to believe in the great and powerful God."

"The nature and end of judgment or sentence must be corrective, not vindictive; for healing, not destruction."

"Oh despise not election!  therein lies all your hope that there is a remnant who shall infallibly be saved"

"The mercies of God make a sinner proud, but a saint humble."

"Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ."

"A true Christian practices his vocation in the light of faith in the teaching of Jesus Christ.  It is God who calls upon Christians to seek out some worldly vocation or work.  Willful unemployment is a vice that reflects a condition of sin.  A warrantable calling that serves God aims at the public good.  A vocation is not a means to one's material self-interest but an opportunity and a vehicle to serve others."

"He [Christ] came to bring peace, to be sure, but the peace that He came to bring must be built upon the complete destruction of the power of darkness." 

“Our forgiving of others will not procure forgiveness for ourselves; but our not forgiving others proves that we ourselves are not forgiven.”

"They lose nothing who gain Christ"

"That which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort."

"Wherever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand, in agriculture, in commerce and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science, he is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of his God, he is employed in the service of his God, he has strictly to obey his God, and above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God."

“Be not only attentive in hearing, but retentive after hearing.”