Inspirational Quotes by J.C. Ryle
“Rarely do we see a person so entirely taken up with spiritual matters, that attention to this world’s affairs is made a secondary matter or postponed. And why is it so? Simply because true conversions to God are uncommon.”
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“Conscience is a most important part of our inward man and plays a most prominent part in our spiritual history. It cannot save us. It never yet led any one to Christ. It is blind and liable to be misled. It is lame and powerless and cannot guide us to heaven. Yet conscience is not to be despised. It is the minister’s best friend, when he stands up to rebuke sin from the pulpit. It is the mother’s best friend, when she tries to restrain her children from evil and quicken them to good. It is the teacher’s best friend, when he presses home on boys and girls their moral duties. Happy is he who never stifles his conscience but strives to keep it tender! Still happier is he who prays to have it enlightened by the Holy Spirit and sprinkled with Christ’s blood.”
“los hombres seguirán confundiendo dos cosas que son diferentes: La justificación y la santificación: - En cuanto a justificación las palabras para decirle al hombre son: “Cree, sólo cree”. - En cuanto a santificación las palabras tienen que ser: “Mantente en guardia, ora y lucha”. Lo”
“La guerra del diablo es mejor que la paz del diablo. Éste sospecha que la santidad es tonta. Cuando al perro lo sacan afuera de la casa aúlla hasta que lo vuelven a dejar entrar”. “Los encuentros de contrarios, como el fuego y el agua, tienen conflicto entre sí. Cuando Satanás encuentra un corazón santificado, lo tienta importunándolo en gran medida. Donde hay mucho de Dios y de Cristo, hay muchos ataques por los que muchos fieles han sido tentados a dudar”. —Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661), Trial of Faith”
“Free speech, free laws, political freedom, commercial freedom, national freedom – all these cannot smooth down a dying pillow, or disarm death of his sting, or fill our consciences with peace. Nothing can do that but the freedom which Christ alone bestows. He gives it freely to all who seek it humbly. Then let us never rest until it is our own.”
“Tratemos todos de reavivar la antigua enseñanza acerca del pecado en los jardines de infantes, escuelas, colegios y universidades. No olvidemos que “la ley es buena, si uno la usa legítimamente” y que “por medio de la ley es el conocimiento del pecado” (1 Tim. 1:8; Ro. 3:20; 7:7). Pongamos la ley al frente y enfaticémosla de modo que los hombres le presten atención. Hablemos de los Diez Mandamientos e insistamos en ellos demostrando lo largo, ancho, profundo y alto de sus requerimientos. Éste fue el método de nuestro Señor en el Sermón del Monte. No hay nada mejor que podemos hacer que seguir su plan. ¡Podemos depender de él; los hombres nunca acudirán a Jesús, ni se quedarán con Jesús, ni vivirán para Jesús, a menos que realmente sepan por qué deben acudir a él y cuál es la necesidad que tienen! Aquellos”
“No puede posponer para siempre lo que concierne a su alma. El día vendrá cuando tendrá que rendirle cuentas a Dios. No puede estar siempre cantando, bailando, comiendo, bebiendo; vistiéndose, leyendo, riendo, bromeando; tramando algo, planeando y ganando dinero. Los insectos de verano no pueden disfrutar del sol para siempre, vendrán las noches frías que darán fin a sus días soleados. Lo mismo sucederá con usted. Puede aplazar ahora su decisión de fe y rechazar los consejos de los ministros de Dios; pero se acerca el frío día cuando Dios ser acerque y le hable. ¿Y cuál será su final?”
“El infante más hermoso que haya nacido este año y viene a ser el rayito de sol de una familia, no es, como su madre quizá cariñosamente lo llame, un “angelito”, ni un bebito “inocente”, sino un pequeño “pecador”. ¡Ay! ¡Acostado sonriendo y balbuceando en su cuna, esta tierna criaturita tiene en su corazón las semillas de todo tipo de maldades! Basta con observarlo cuidadosamente mientras crece en estatura y su mente se desarrolla, para detectar una incesante tendencia hacia lo egoísta y lo malo, y un alejamiento de aquello que sea bueno. Verá en él los brotes y gérmenes del engaño, del mal carácter, egoísmo, egocentrismo, obstinación, codicia, envidia, celo, pasión, los cuales si se les deja expresar, crecerán con lamentable rapidez. ¿Quién enseñó al niño estas cosas? ¿Dónde las aprendió?”
“Now, if children were considered to be capable of admission into the Church by an ordinance in the Old Testament, it is difficult to see why they cannot be admitted in the New. The general tendency of the Gospel is to increase men’s spiritual privileges and not to diminish them. Nothing, I believe, would astonish a Jewish convert so much as to tell him his children could not be baptized! “If they are fit to receive circumcision,” he would reply, “why are they not fit to receive baptism?” And my own firm conviction has long been that no Baptist could give him an answer. In fact I never heard of a converted Jew becoming a Baptist, and I never saw an argument against infant baptism that might not have been equally directed against infant circumcision. No man, I suppose, in his sober senses, would presume to say that infant circumcision was wrong.”
― J.C. Ryle ,
from Knots Untied
“You may spoil the Gospel by substitution. You have only to withdraw from the eyes of the sinner the grand object which the Bible proposes to faith,—Jesus Christ; and to substitute another object in His place,—the Church, the Ministry, the Confessional, Baptism or the Lord’s Supper,—and the mischief is done. Substitute anything for Christ, and the Gospel is totally spoiled! Do this, either directly or indirectly, and your religion ceases to be Evangelical.”
― J.C. Ryle ,
from Knots Untied
“La verdadera santidad, tenemos que recordar, no consiste meramente de sensaciones e impresiones interiores. Se trata más que de lágrimas, suspiros y un entusiasmo corporal, un pulso acelerado y una pasión por nuestros predicadores favoritos o nuestro propio grupo religioso. No es solamente una pronta disposición a hacerle frente a cualquiera que no coincide con nosotros. En cambio, es más bien algo de “la imagen de Cristo” que puede ser vista y observada por otros en nuestra vida privada, nuestros hábitos, nuestro carácter y nuestras acciones (Ro. 8:29).”
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J.C. Ryle (1816 - 1900)
J.C. Ryle was a prolific writer, vigorous preacher, faithful pastor, husband of three wives, [widowed three times: Matilda died in 1847, Jessie died in 1860, Henrietta died in 1889] and the father to five children [1 with Matilta and 4 with Jessie]. He was thoroughly evangelical in his doctrine and uncompromising in his Biblical principles. In 1880, after 38 years in Pastoral ministry in rural England, at age 64, he became the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool. He retired in 1900 at age 83 and died later the same year at the age of 84.“He [J.C. Ryle] was great through the abounding grace of God. He was great in stature; great in mental power; great in spirituality; great as a preacher and expositor of God’s most holy Word; great in hospitality; great as a writer of Gospel tracts; great as a Bishop of the Reformed Evangelical Protestant Church in England, of which he was a noble defender; great as first Bishop of Liverpool. I am bold to say, that perhaps few men in the nineteenth century did as much for God, for truth, and for righteousness, among the English speaking race, and in the world, as our late Bishop.” - Rev. Richard Hobson, three days after Ryle’s burial in 1900.
John Charles Ryle was the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool. Ryle was a strong supporter of the evangelical school and a critic of Ritualism. Among his longer works are Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century (1869), Expository Thoughts on the Gospels (7 vols, 1856-69), Principles for Churchmen (1884).
Thoroughly evangelical in his doctrine and uncompromising in his principles, J.C. Ryle was a prolific writer, vigorous preacher, and faithful pastor.
In his diocese, he exercised a vigorous and straightforward preaching ministry, and was a faithful pastor to his clergy, exercising particular care over ordination retreats. He formed a clergy pension fund for his diocese and built over forty churches. Despite criticism, he put raising clergy salaries ahead of building a cathedral for his new diocese.
Ryle combined his commanding presence and vigorous advocacy of his principles with graciousness and warmth in his personal relations. Vast numbers of working men and women attended his special preaching meetings, and many became Christians.
John Charles Ryle was born at Macclesfield and was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford. He was a fine athlete who rowed and played Cricket for Oxford, where he took a first class degree in Greats and was offered a college fellowship (teaching position) which he declined. The son of a wealthy banker, he was destined for a career in politics before answering a call to ordained ministry.
He was spiritually awakened in 1838 while hearing Ephesians 2 read in church. He was ordained by Bishop Sumner at Winchester in 1842. After holding a curacy at Exbury in Hampshire, he became rector of St Thomas's, Winchester (1843), rector of Helmingham, Suffolk (1844), vicar of Stradbroke (1861), honorary canon of Norwich (1872), and dean of Salisbury (1880). In 1880, at age 64, he became the first bishop of Liverpool, at the recommendation of Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. He retired in 1900 at age 83 and died later the same year.
Ryle was a strong supporter of the evangelical school and a critic of Ritualism. Among his longer works are Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century (1869), Expository Thoughts on the Gospels (7 vols, 1856-69) and Principles for Churchmen (1884).