# “Let us never make ministers Popes” by J.C. Ryle

- Link: https://tollelege.net/2020/03/10/let-us-never-make-ministers-popes-by-j-c-ryle/
- Published: 2020-03-10T12:00:49-05:00
- Author: tollelege

“If a man’s religion hangs on ministers, whoever they may be, and not on the Word
of God, it hangs on a broken reed.

Let us never make ministers Popes.

Let us follow them so far as they follow Christ, but not a hair’s breadth further.

Let us believe whatever they can show us out of the Bible, but not a single word
more (_Acts 17:11-12; 1 Thess. 5:21_).”

–J.C. Ryle, [_Knots Untied: Being Plain Statements on Disputed Points in Religion_](https://amzn.to/3cOfQIv)(
Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1874/2016), 55.

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