J. C. Ryle Sin Quotations

The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent.

What would you expect? Sin will not come to you saying, 'I am sin.' It would do little harm if it did. Sin always seems 'good, pleasant and desirable' at the time of arrival.

HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.

How can we love sin, when we remember that because of our sins Jesus died?

Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

Be very sure of this,-people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it only too well; they understand that it condemns their own behavior; they understand that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to judgment.

I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.

If you and sin are friends, you and God are not yet reconciled.

We should no more tolerate false doctrine that we would tolerate sin.

Prayer is the surest remedy against the devil and besetting sins.

Christ is never fully valued, until sin is clearly seen.

There is something sadly wrong when it is more important to us whether others are a part of our denomination, rather than whether they repent of sin, believe on Christ and live holy lives.

Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.

Sin and the devil will always find helpers in our hearts.

Sin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission.

Sin rarely seems sin at first beginnings.

Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.

If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself.