Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of Matthew Quotes

“Sweet things occasion far more sicknesses than bitter. The sun makes the traveler cast off his protective garments far sooner than the north wind. Let us beware of the flatterer. Satan is never so dangerous as when he appears as an angel of light. The world is never so dangerous to the Christian as when it smiles. When Judas betrayed his Lord, it was with a kiss. The believer who is proof against the world’s frown does well, but he who is proof against its flattery does better.”
― J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of Matthew [Annotated, Updated]: A Commentary

“We need to be warned that it is no light matter whether we repent or not. We need to be reminded that there is a hell as well as a heaven, and an everlasting punishment for the wicked as well as everlasting life for the godly. We are fearfully apt to forget this. We talk of the love and mercy of God, and we do not remember sufficiently His justness and holiness. Let us be very careful on this point. It is no real kindness to keep back the terrors of the Lord. It is good for us all to be taught that it is possible to be lost forever, and that all unconverted people are hanging over the brink of the pit.”
― J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of Matthew: A Commentary

“They believed in Him when they saw Him as a little infant on Mary’s knee and worshiped Him as a king. This was the crowning point of their faith. They saw no miracles to convince them. They heard no teaching to persuade them. They beheld no signs of divinity and greatness to overawe them. They saw nothing but a newborn infant, helpless and weak, and needing a mother’s care like any one of us. And yet when they saw that infant, they believed that they saw the divine Savior of the world. They fell to the ground and worshiped Him.”
― J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of Matthew: A Commentary

“The poorest Englishman who understands his Bible knows more about religion than the wisest philosophers of Greece and Rome.”
― J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of Matthew: A Commentary

“The name Jesus means “Savior.” It is the same name as Joshua in the Old Testament. It is given to our Lord because He will save His people from their sins. This is His special office. He saves them from the guilt of sin by washing them in His own atoning blood. He saves them from the dominion of sin by putting in their hearts the sanctifying Spirit. He saves them from the presence of sin when He takes them out of this world to rest with Him forever. He will save them from all the consequences of sin when He shall give them a glorious body at the last day.”
― J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of Matthew: A Commentary

“Men may be born in dark places of the earth, like these wise men, and yet like them be made "wise unto salvation.”
― J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew

“In all this passage there is a treasury of golden lessons. Let us seek to use them in our daily life. Let us not only read them, but turn them to practical account. Let us watch and pray against worry, and an over-anxious spirit. It deeply concerns our happiness. Half our miseries are caused by imagining things that we think are coming upon us. Half the things that we expect to come upon us, never come at all. Where is our faith? Where is our confidence in our Savior's words? We may well take shame to ourselves, when we read these verses, and then look into our hearts. But this we may be sure of, that David's words are true, "I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread." (Psalm 37:25.)”
― J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew