Ryan M. McGraw > Quotes

“The Holy Spirit replicates the life, death, and resurrection of Christ in every Christian.”
― Ryan M. McGraw, Why Should You Deny Yourself?: Cultivating Biblical Godliness Series

“J. C. Ryle, the nineteenth-century English bishop, wrote, “Surely a Christian should be willing to give up anything which stands between him and heaven. A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing! A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.”
― Ryan M. McGraw, Why Should You Deny Yourself?: Cultivating Biblical Godliness Series

“The church membership of believers lies primarily in the church catholic and the primary charge and commission of ministers is to the church catholic. “In”
― Ryan M. McGraw, James Bannerman's Church of Christ: Outlined and Abridged with Study Questions

“The doctrine of Rome is the outcome of placing the highest unity of the church in the visible church rather than in the invisible church (248).”
― Ryan M. McGraw, James Bannerman's Church of Christ: Outlined and Abridged with Study Questions

“Thou hadst better all the world speak against thee than to have God and thy conscience accuse thee for not doing thy duty.”
― Ryan M. McGraw, Why Should You Deny Yourself?: Cultivating Biblical Godliness Series

“they do well to admit that they need help, but Christ calls men to confess that they are beyond help.”
― Ryan M. McGraw, Why Should You Deny Yourself?: Cultivating Biblical Godliness Series

“A working definition of self-denial is that principle by which, regardless of personal cost, we believe and do whatever Christ teaches us and reject and flee from whatever He forbids us.”
― Ryan M. McGraw, Why Should You Deny Yourself?: Cultivating Biblical Godliness Series

“The distinction between the church invisible and the church visible lies at the heart of the conflict between Protestantism and Roman Catholicism.”
― Ryan M. McGraw, James Bannerman's Church of Christ: Outlined and Abridged with Study Questions

“The Sacraments of the New Testament are sensible signs of spiritual blessings, teaching and representing by outward actions Gospel truths” (6).”
― Ryan M. McGraw, James Bannerman's Church of Christ: Outlined and Abridged with Study Questions

“There is an important distinction between what is necessary to the being of a church, and what is necessary to its well-being” (55).”
― Ryan M. McGraw, James Bannerman's Church of Christ: Outlined and Abridged with Study Questions

“Roman Catholicism makes union and communion with the visible church a substitute for union and communion with the Savior (92).”
― Ryan M. McGraw, James Bannerman's Church of Christ: Outlined and Abridged with Study Questions

“He who needed no rest, in the greatness of his condescension, rested from the work which He had creatively made, that by His example He might woo man to his needed rest.”
― Ryan M. McGraw, The Day of Worship: Reassessing the Christian Life in Light of the Sabbath

“Surely a Christian should be willing to give up anything which stands between him and heaven.”
― Ryan M. McGraw, Why Should You Deny Yourself?: Cultivating Biblical Godliness Series

“The issue is less what we do with life than it is how we do it.”
― Ryan M. McGraw