Christ Alone is All!

There are multitudes of baptized men and women who profess to honour Christ, but in reality do Him great dishonour.

They give Christ a certain place in their system of religion, but not the place which God intended Him to fill.

Christ alone is not “all in all” to their souls.

No!

It is either Christ and the Church, or Christ and the sacraments, or Christ and His ordained ministers, or Christ and their own repentance, or Christ and their own goodness, or Christ and their own prayers, or Christ and their own sincerity and charity, on which they practically rest their souls.

If any reader of this paper is a Christian of this kind, I warn him also plainly, that his religion is an offence to God. You are changing God’s plan of salvation into a plan of your own devising. You are in effect deposing Christ from His throne, by giving the glory due to Him to another.

J.C. Ryle – Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots, “Christ Is All.”