Quotes about Salvation
The child of God has two great characteristics about him: he can be known by his inward warfare, and he can be known by his inward peace.
— JC Ryle
Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.
— JC Ryle
Let this also be written in your memory, and never forgotten. No Holy Spirit,--no true Christianity! You must have the Spirit in you, as well as Christ for you, if you are ever to be saved. God must be your loving Father, Jesus must be your known Redeemer, the Holy Ghost must be your felt Sanctifier, or else it will be better for you never to have been born.
— JC Ryle
True saving faith is a very different kind of thing. True faith will always show itself by its fruits — it will sanctify, it will work by love, it will overcome the world, and it will purify the heart.
— JC Ryle
Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian but contains nothing of the cross. A man who teaches in this way might as well profess to explain the solar system but tell his hearers nothing about the sun.
— JC Ryle
No interest should weigh on you so much as their eternal interests. No part of them should be as dear to you as that part which will never die.
— JC Ryle
We may reach heaven without learning, or riches, or health, or worldly greatness. But we shall never reach heaven if we die impenitent and unbelieving. A new heart and a lively faith in a Redeemer are absolutely needful to salvation.
— JC Ryle
Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to thy cross I cling; Naked, flee to thee for dress; Helpless, look to thee for grace.
— JC Ryle
Men may be born in dark places of the earth, like these wise men, and yet like them be made "wise unto salvation.
— JC Ryle
An unconverted, unrepentant person would not be happy if he got to heaven without a heart changed by the Holy Spirit. He would be a creature out of his proper element. He would have no ability to enjoy his holy abode. Without a repentant heart, he is not suitable for the inheritance of the saints in light (Colossians 1:12). We must repent if we want to go to heaven.
— JC Ryle
Think for a moment how much is involved in those few words, "none of His." You are not washed in Christ's blood! You are not clothed in His righteousness! You are not justified! You are not interceded for! Your sins are yet upon you! The devil claims you for his own! The pit opens her mouth for you! The torments of hell wait for you!
— JC Ryle
We are all fast travelling toward a place where names and forms and Church-government will be nothing, and Christ will be all Let us get ready for that place betimes, by loving all who are in the way that leads to it.
— JC Ryle