Quotes by J.C. Ryle

Like infants, when they are born into the world, Gods children are not born again in the full possession of their spiritual faculties; and it is well and wisely ordered that it is so. What we win easily, we seldom value sufficiently. The very fact that believers have to struggle and fight hard before they get hold of real soundness in the faith, helps to make them prize it more when they have attained it. The truths that cost us a battle are precisely those which we grasp most firmly, and never let go.

It is bad enough to be unconverted and going to hell. It is even worse to say, “I know it and will not cry for mercy.

“Hell is truth known too late.”

“Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.”