J. C. Ryle - Heaven Quotes

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What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.

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In Christ alone God's rich provision of salvation for sinners is treasured up: by Christ alone God's abundant mercies come down from heaven to earth. Christ's blood alone can cleanse us; Christ's righteousness alone can cleanse us; Christ's merit alone can give us a title to heaven. Jews and Gentiles, learned and unlearned, kings and poor men--all alike must either be saved by the Lord Jesus, or lost forever.

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Christ's death is the Christian's life. Christ's cross is the Christian's title to heaven. Christ "lifted up" and put to shame on Calvary is the ladder by which Christians "enter into the holiest," and are at length landed in glory.

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There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven - the crucified Son of God.

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Do something, by God's help, to make heaven more full and hell more empty.

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He that has trained his children for heaven,
rather than for earth- for God rather than for man- he is the parent who will be called wise at the last.

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Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.

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No salvation without regeneration - no spiritual life without a new birth - no heaven without a new heart.

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The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.

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Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.

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According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.

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The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell.

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People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger of hell.

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To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.

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We must cast away everything which hinders us upon our road towards heaven – the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye and the pride of life; the love of riches, pleasures and honors, the spirit of lukewarmness and carelessness and indifference about the things of God – all must be rooted out and forsaken if we are anxious for the prize. We must mortify the deeds of the body, we must crucify our affections for this world.

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Lastly, we must be holy, because without holiness on earth - we will never be prepared to enjoy Heaven....I do not know what others may think - but to me it does seem clear that Heaven would be a miserable place to an unholy man. It cannot be otherwise. People may say in a vague way, that they "hope to go to Heaven, but they do not consider what they say. There must be a certain "fitness for the inheritance of the saints in light.

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If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange thing, if we have to endure sicknesses, losses, bereavements, and disappointments, just like other people. Free pardon and full forgiveness, grace by the way and glory to the end – all this our Savior has promised to give. But He has never promised that we shall have no afflictions. He loves us too well to promise that.

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