“Do nothing that you would not like God to see. Say nothing you would not like God to hear. Write nothing you would not like God to read. Go no place where you would not like God to find you. Read no book of which you would not like God to say, "Show it to Me."Never spend your time in such a way that you would not like to have God say, "What are you doing?””
Quotes by J. C. Ryle
“Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.””
A Call to Prayer
“Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.””
A Call to Prayer
“There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.””
“Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not holy; a God who has a heaven for every body, but a hell for none; a God who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and broad in eternity. Such a God is an idol of your own, as truly an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him. He is not the God of the Bible, and beside the God of the Bible there is no God at all.””
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle was a prominent English evangelical bishop and writer, known for his influential works on Christian faith and practice. Born in 1816, Ryle became a significant figure in the 19th-century ev...