Here are 22 tweets (140 characters or less) from the chapter on sin in J. C. Ryle's classic work on sanctification, Holiness:
- Wrong views about holiness are generally traceable to wrong views about human corruption
- The plain truth is that a right knowledge of sin lies at the root of all saving Christianity.
- Dim or indistinct views of sin are the origin of most of the errors, heresies, and false doctrines of the present day.
- Sin…is that vast moral disease which affects the whole human race, of every rank, and class, and name, and nation, and people, and tongue…
- … “a sin,”…consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining, anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God.
- The slightest outward or inward departure from absolute mathematical parallelism with God’s revealed will and character constitutes a sin…
- …when we make our own miserably imperfect knowledge and consciousness the measure of our sinfulness, we are on very dangerous ground.
- …the sinfulness of man does not begin from without, but from within.
- The fairest babe … is not, as its mother perhaps fondly calls it, a little “angel,” or a little “innocent,” but a little “sinner.”
- Sin is a disease which pervades and runs through every part of our moral constitution and every faculty of our minds.
- Mighty indeed must that foe be who even when crucified is still alive!
- I do not think…that mortal man can at all realize the exceeding sinfulness of sin in the sight of that holy and perfect One.
- Terribly black must that guilt be for which nothing but the blood of the Son of God could make satisfaction.
- I fear we do not sufficiently realize the extreme subtlety of our soul’s disease.
- Oh, no! sin comes to us, like Judas, with a kiss; and like Joab, with an outstretched hand and flattering words.
- Sin rarely seems sin at first beginnings.
- What a mass of infirmity and imperfection cleaves to the very best of us at our very best!
- There is a remedy revealed for man’s need, as wide and broad and deep as man’s disease.
- …in all this, I say, there is a full, perfect, and complete medicine for the hideous disease of sin.
- Awful and tremendous as the right view of sin undoubtedly is, no one need faint and despair if he will take a right view of Jesus Christ…
- Those whom the Spirit draws to Jesus are those whom the Spirit has convinced of sin.
- …a Scriptural view of sin is one of the best antidotes to the extravagantly broad and liberal theology…
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