J. C. Ryle Quotes

God without Christ is no God.

Some Jews and Muslims accuse Christians of being idolatrous for believing in the Trinity. My response to both groups is that they fundamentally misunderstand the Christian understanding of the Trinity.

Praying in Jesus' name makes the distinction that all glory and honor belong to Christ, who is one with God the Father.

What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth.

Christians are disbelievers for believing in the divinity of Christ.

All throughout the Bible, we get to see who Jesus is.

The Bible is clear that the Holy Spirit is God Himself.

We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.

If Christ be anything, He must be everything.

Any time you attempt to make a God beyond Christ, you murder the whole thing. God alone can worship God.

Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man, as a devout, earnest, continued, investigation of the great subject of the Deity. The most excellent study for expanding the soul is the science of Christ and Him crucified and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity.

If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him, there needs no further argument of His divinity.

There is one subject in religion, about which you can never know too much. That subject is Jesus Christ the Lord.

The fundamental principle of Christianity is to be what God is, and he is light.

We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.

If I had a thousand pounds, China should have it. If I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! Not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Him?

His Son Jesus, the Word of God, is our Instructor.... He is God and Creator.

...when I accept Christ as my Savior... I am immediately in a new and living relationship with each of the three persons of the Trinity.

I have always declared God to be a distinct personage, Jesus Christ a separate and distinct personage from God the Father, and the Holy Ghost was a distinct personage and a Spirit: and these three constitute three distinct personages and three Gods.

Above all I commend the study of Christ. Let Him be your library.

Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.

Christ died"--that is history; "Christ died for our sins"--that is doctrine. Without these two elements, joined in an absolutely indissoluble union, there is no Christianity.

One can understand nothing of Christ without the mystery of the Trinity, nothing of the Church without faith in the divinity and humanity of Christ, nothing of the sacraments without the bridal mystery between Christian life without Christian faith. Thus, the present sermons revolve around the same center--the inexhaustible mystery of the one indivisible faith.

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

Jesus Christ is to me the outstanding personality of all time, all history, both as Son of God and as Son of Man. Everything he ever said or did has value for us today and that is something you can say of no other man, dead or alive. There is no easy middle ground to stroll upon. You either accept Jesus or reject him.