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Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of John [Annotated, Updated]: A Commentary QUOTES

1 " He sees by faith an unseen Savior, who . . .
loved him,
gave Himself for him,
paid his debts for him,
bore his sins, carried his transgressions,
rose again for him, and
appears in Heaven for him as his Advocate at the right hand of God.

He sees Jesus — and clings to Him. Seeing this Savior and trusting in Him — he feels peace and hope and willingly does battle against the foes of his soul.

He sees . . .
his own many sins,
his own weak heart,
a tempting world,
a busy devil —
and if he looked only at them, he might well despair. BUT he sees also a mighty Savior, an interceding Savior, a sympathizing Savior — His blood, His righteousness, His everlasting priesthood — and he believes that all this is his own. He sees Jesus — and casts his whole weight on Him. Seeing Him, he cheerfully fights on, with a full confidence that he will prove more than conqueror through Him that loved him (Romans 8:37). "

― J.C. Ryle , Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of John [Annotated, Updated]: A Commentary

2 " Good feelings and desires are useless if they are not accompanied by action. "

― J.C. Ryle , Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of John [Annotated, Updated]: A Commentary

3 " Peace, and not riches, had been the great legacy which He had left with the eleven the night before His crucifixion. "

― J.C. Ryle , Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of John [Annotated, Updated]: A Commentary

4 " what miserable creatures great men are when they have no high principles within them and no faith in the reality of a God above them. "

― J.C. Ryle , Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of John [Annotated, Updated]: A Commentary

5 " Rarely do we see a person so entirely taken up with spiritual matters, that attention to this world’s affairs is made a secondary matter or postponed. And why is it so? Simply because true conversions to God are uncommon. "

― J.C. Ryle , Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of John [Annotated, Updated]: A Commentary

6 " Conscience is a most important part of our inward man and plays a most prominent part in our spiritual history. It cannot save us. It never yet led any one to Christ. It is blind and liable to be misled. It is lame and powerless and cannot guide us to heaven. Yet conscience is not to be despised. It is the minister’s best friend, when he stands up to rebuke sin from the pulpit. It is the mother’s best friend, when she tries to restrain her children from evil and quicken them to good. It is the teacher’s best friend, when he presses home on boys and girls their moral duties. Happy is he who never stifles his conscience but strives to keep it tender! Still happier is he who prays to have it enlightened by the Holy Spirit and sprinkled with Christ’s blood. "

― J.C. Ryle , Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of John [Annotated, Updated]: A Commentary

7 " In grace as well as in providence, Christ works still. He is ever taking away sin. "

― J.C. Ryle , Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of John [Annotated, Updated]: A Commentary

8 " I pray for them – I pray not for the world. "

― J.C. Ryle , Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of John [Annotated, Updated]: A Commentary

9 " Free speech, free laws, political freedom, commercial freedom, national freedom – all these cannot smooth down a dying pillow, or disarm death of his sting, or fill our consciences with peace. Nothing can do that but the freedom which Christ alone bestows. He gives it freely to all who seek it humbly. Then let us never rest until it is our own. "

― J.C. Ryle , Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of John [Annotated, Updated]: A Commentary