Five English Reformers Quotes

“Never let it be forgotten in these days, that the denial of any corporal presence of Christ’s Body and Blood in the elements of bread and wine at the Lord’s Supper, was the turning-point which decided the fate of our martyred Reformers.”
― J.C. Ryle, Five English Reformers

“say the Church of England had better perish and go to pieces than forsake John Hooper’s principles and tolerate the sacrifice of the Mass, and auricular confession.”
― J.C. Ryle, Five English Reformers

“Let us have no peace with Rome, till Rome abjures her errors and is at peace with Christ.”
― J.C. Ryle, Five English Reformers

“Never, I believe, did Popery do herself such damage as when she burnt our Reformers. Their blood was the seed of the Church. The good that they did by their deaths was more than they did all their lives. Their martyrdoms made thousands think who were never reached by their sermons. Myriads, we may depend, came to the conclusion, that a Church which could act so abominably and cruelly as Rome did could never be the one true Church of God; and that a cause which could produce such patient and unflinching sufferers must surely be the cause of Christ and of truth.”
― J.C. Ryle, Five English Reformers

“If ever there was a plausible theory weighed in the balance and found utterly wanting, it is the favourite theory that celibacy and monasticism promote holiness.”
― J.C. Ryle, Five English Reformers

“A famishing man, in sieges and blockades, has been known to eat mice and rats rather than die of hunger. A soul famishing for lack of God’s Word must not be judged too harshly if it struggles to find comfort in the most grovelling superstition.”
― J.C. Ryle, Five English Reformers

“Take away the Gospel from a Church and that Church is not worth preserving. A well without water, a scabbard without a sword, a steam-engine without a fire, a ship without compass and rudder, a watch without a mainspring, a stuffed carcase without life,—all these are useless things. But there is nothing so useless as a Church without the Gospel.”
― J.C. Ryle, Five English Reformers

“Rome never changes. Rome will never admit that she has made mistakes.”
― J.C. Ryle, Five English Reformers

“Never did Rome do herself such irreparable damage as she did in Mary’s reign. Even unlearned people, who could not argue much, saw clearly that a Church which committed such horrible bloodshed could hardly be the one true Church of Christ!”
― J.C. Ryle, Five English Reformers

“Truth is truth, however long it may be neglected. Facts are facts, however long they may lie buried.”
― J.C. Ryle, Five English Reformers