J. C. Ryle Quotes

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

I had a dream that my dad passed away and that Jesus came into the room and he was basically knocking on my door, saying, 'Hey, you need to find out more about me.' So that Sunday morning I ended up going to church, and that's when I got saved.

I used to just want so badly to have afterlife insured and make sure I was going to heaven.

Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.

Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.

The only way to get to Heaven is to go through Hell.

He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.

I'm ensuring my place in heaven.

I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it.

May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs - let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

Once I realized the emptiness of life apart from knowing God, when I embraced God and the truth of the gospel and the truth of the Bible, it was a no-brainer decision to see that that was a treasure that was infinitely more valuable than some sort of an atheistic Hollywood party life.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise.'

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

I came to Christ in my early 20s.

If there is a heaven, I don't know anything else I can do to get there - and neither do you.

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.

I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.

According to God's word, everybody at some point is going to be given the opportunity to know the truth.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.