A trial is an instrument by which our Father in heaven makes Christians more holy. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Let us be real, honest, and sincere in our Christianity. We cannot deceive an all-seeing God. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
True Christians delight to read the Scriptures, because they tell them about their beloved Savior. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Do you wish to grow in grace and be a holy Christian? Then never forget the value of prayer. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
We know but little of true Christianity, if we don't feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and not a supernatural, divine revelation, how is it that it has wrought such… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The resurrection of Christ is one of the foundation stones of Christianity. It was the seal of the great work that He… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
We ought to regard the sacrament of baptism with reverence. An ordinance of which the Lord Jesus Himself partook, is not to… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
There are few professing Christians, it may be feared, who strive to imitate Christ in the matter of private devotion. There is… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Let us awake to a sense of the perilous state of many professing Christians. 'Without holiness no man shall see the Lord';… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
What will it cost [a person] to be a true Christian? It will cost him his self-righteousn ess. He must cast away… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The true Christian regards all Christ's friends as his friends, members of the same body, children of the same family, soldiers in… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The saddest symptom about many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict and fight against spiritual apathy in their… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Let us resolve to talk more to believers about the Bible when we meet them. Alas, the conversation of Christians, when they… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
For my own part, I believe that in dealing with skeptics, and unbelievers, and enemies of the Bible, Christians are too apt… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Infidelity and skepticism abound everywhere. In one form or another they are to be found in every rank and class of society.… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Meekness is one of the brightest graces which can adorn the Christian character. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Since Satan can't destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear? — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The true Christian delights to hear something about their Master. They like those sermons best which are full of Christ. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share
Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's book; I call upon you not to forget the book of the soul.… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share
Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share
The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share
We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share
Sunday morning, before we go to hear the Word of God preached...let us not rush into God’s presence careless, reckless, and unprepared, as if… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share
O Christian, look up and take comfort. Jesus has prepared a place for you, and those who follow Him shall never perish, neither shall… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share
Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share
Let it be a settled principle ...that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share
If we would know whether our faith is genuine, we do well to ask ourselves how we are living. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share
To be born again is, as it were, to enter upon a new existence, to have a new mind, a new heart, new views,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share
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