J. C. Ryle Quotes

If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting comes in. If we are in love with our Lord, obedience does not cost us anything, it is a delight, but it costs those who do not love Him a good deal.

We may sing, 'Crown Him Lord of all,' and rejoice in the tones of the loud-sounding organ and the deep melody of harmonious voices, but still we have done nothing until we have left the world and set our faces toward the city of God in hard practical reality. When faith becomes obedience then it is true faith indeed.

I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.

The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian.

To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations.

I leave to the men of God the things that pertain to the service of God.

I believe it's easy to serve God if we learn to hear from Him before we struggle to do things for Him that He never asked us to do.

Beware of reasoning about God's Word - obey It.

One chief cause of the amount of unbelief in the world is tha tthose who have seen something of the glory of Christ set themselves to theorize concerning him rather than to obey him.

They who secure eternal life are doers of the word as well as hearers.

What else should we do with the Word of God but obey?

Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.

It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word.

When God commands, do it!

If I had not obeyed that command of God, concerning plural marriage, I believe that I would have been damned.

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ. Such a man knows that the call to discipleship is a gift of grace, and that the call is inseparable from the grace. But those who try to use this grace as a dispensation from following Christ are simply deceiving themselves.

You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice.

I don't know a single person who truly seems to bear the mark of God's presence and power in his or her life who hasn't been asked by God to be obedient in a way that was dramatically painful.

What kind of believer are you? Do you believe IN God?. Or do you believe God? There is a major distinction. People who believe in God, simply acknowledge the existence of a Higher Power. People who believe God believe Him enough to do what He says.

I speak of God's love and grace and redemption and freedom, but when I say "in the context of this community," it is heard differently. To be with people so obviously broken, so obviously handicapped, and here to discover real joy and peace - that makes the Word of God come alive.

If you ignore every single thing Jesus told you to do, you are just auditing. You're not a Christian.

All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.

We can all be more consistently involved in missionary work by replacing our fear with real faith.