"If you desire salvation, and want to know what to do, I advise you to go this very day to the Lord Jesus Christ, in the first private place you can find, and earnestly and heartily entreat him in prayer to save your soul. Tell him that you have heard that he receives sinners, and he has said, "Him that comes unto me I will in nowise cast out." Tell him that you are a poor vile sinner, and that you come to him on the faith of his own invitation. Tell him you put yourself wholly and entirely in his hands: that you feel vile and helpless, and hopeless in yourself: and that except he saves you, you have no hope of being saved at all. Beseech him to deliver you from guilt, the power, and the consequences of sin. Beseech him to pardon you, and wash you in his own blood. Beseech him to give you a new heart, and plant the Holy Spirit in your soul. Beseech him to give you grace and faith and will and power to be his disciple and servant from this day forever. Oh, reader, go this very day, and tell these things to the Lord Jesus Christ, if you are really in earnest about your soul."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
pp. 42β43
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._C._Ryle
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
J. C. Ryle
John Charles Ryle (May 10, 1816 β June 10, 1900) was the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool.
65 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by J. C. Ryle β
Related Quotes
"Remember that you are to venture the whole salvation of your soul on Christ, and on Christ only. You are to cast loosβ¦"
"I cannot find in Scripture that anyone ever got to heaven merely by sincerity, or was accepted with God if he was onlβ¦"
"Salvation in Christ to the very uttermost, but out of Christ no salvation at all.[β¦] Grant for a moment that the Biblβ¦"
"A hopeful growing believer is a walking sermon. He preaches far more than I do, for he preaches all the week round, sβ¦"
"All the sciences in the world never smoothed down a dying pillow. No earthly philosophy ever supplied hope in death."
"Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book."
"[T]here is more to be learned at the foot of the cross than anywhere else in the world."
"Assurance is more than life. It is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty."
"The believer who follows the Lord most fully, will ordinarily enjoy the most assured hope, and have the clearest persβ¦"
"The heart is the part of man which God chiefly notices in religion."