Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
We want more men and women who walk with God and before God, like Enoch and Abraham. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The brightest saint is the man who has the most heart-searching sense of his own sinfulness, and the liveliest sense of his… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
In justification the word to be addressed to man is believe - only believe; in sanctification the word must be 'watch, pray,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Let it be a settled principle ...that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
If Christ had not gone to the cross and suffered in our stead, the just for the unjust, there would not have… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
He that has trained his children for heaven, rather than for earth- for God rather than for man- he is the parent… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Doubting does not prove that a man has no faith, but only that his faith is small. And even when our faith… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The Bible applied to the heart by the Holy Ghost is the chief means by which men are built up and established… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Lastly, we must be holy, because without holiness on earth - we will never be prepared to enjoy Heaven. ...I do not… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
A zealous man feels that like a lamp he is made to burn; and if consumed in burning, he has but done… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
When a man’s heart is cold and unconcerned about religion – when his hands are never employed in doing God’s work –… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The more I read, the less I admire modern theology. the more I study the productions of the new schools of theological… — 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
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
Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
If men come among you who do NOT preach all the counsel of God, who do NOT preach of Christ, sin, holiness,… — 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
There is but one fountain of comfort for a man drawing near to his end, and that is the Bible. ...All comfort… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will… — 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
