Articles & Quotes

Jesus said, 'Therefore consider carefully how you listen' (Luke 8:18). Here are some cautions and directions, in order to help you hear sermons with profit and advantage. 1. Come to hear them, not out of curiosity, but from a sincere desire to know and do your duty. To enter His house merely...

There is such a place as hell. Let no one deceive you with vain words. What people do not like, they try hard not to believe. When the Lord Jesus Christ comes to judge the world, He will punish all who are not His disciples with a fearful punishment: all who are found unrepentant and...

1. The Spirit awakens a person’s heart. 2. The Spirit teaches a person’s mind. 3. The Spirit leads to the Word. 4. The Spirit convinces of sin. 5. The Spirit draws to Christ. 6. The Spirit sanctifies. 7. The Spirit makes a person spiritually minded. 8. The Spirit produces inward...

​1. Read the Bible with an EARNEST desire to understand it. Do not be content to just read the words of Scripture. Seek to grasp the message they contain. 2. Read the Scriptures with a SIMPLE, CHILDLIKE faith and humility. Believe what God reveals. Reason must bow to God's revelation. 3....

“The moment someone begins to give for the sake of receiving more back from the Lord, or he stops sowing bountifully in order to increase his own possessions, the river of God’s bounty will no longer continue to flow.” – George Mueller “In all of my years of service to my Lord, I have...

“This is one secret of eminent holiness. He that would be conformed to Christ's image, and become a Christ-like man, must be constantly studying Christ Himself.” – J.C. Ryle “Let us beware of leaving our first love like Ephesus—of becoming lukewarm like Laodicea—of tolerating false practices...

“The true Christian life also grows, and it can only do so by daily communing with God. Our life should never run two days on just the same level. The days should be ladder rungs lifting our heart ever a little higher, nearer to God, into purer air, into loftier experiences, into holier...

Holiness A Sermon by J.C. Ryle "Holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord." - Hebrews 12:14 THE text which heads this page opens up a subject of deep importance. That subject is practical holiness. It suggests a question which demands the attention of all professing Christians...

Justification and Sanctification By J.C. Ryle I now propose to consider, in the last place, the distinction between justification and sanctification. Wherein do they agree, and wherein do they differ? This branch of our subject is one of great importance, though I fear it will not seem so...

Hudson Taylor Quotes “God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.” — J. Hudson Taylor "You do not need a great faith, but faith in a great God." — J. Hudson Taylor “Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God...

Thoughts On Public Worship J.C. Ryle "God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth" (John 4:24). "For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh" (Phil. 3:3). "And in vain they worship...

It is not enough that we go to church and hear sermons. We may do so for fifty years, and be nothing better, but rather worse. “Take heed,” says our Lord, “how you hear.” Would any one know how to hear properly? Then let them lay to heart three simple rules. 1) We must hear with FAITH,...

Nine Lessons from God Concerning Sickness By J.C. Ryle Sickness is meant… 1. To make us think, to remind us that we have a soul as well as a body – an immortal soul, a soul that will live forever in happiness or in misery – and that if this soul is not saved we had better never have...

​Isaiah 56:7: “Even them I will bring to My holy mountain, and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on My altar; for My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations”. Prayer is everything to God. It is a barometer of a...