But if there is one thing clearly and plainly laid down about election, it is this: that elect men and women may… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Troublous times, departures from the faith, evil men waxing worse and worse, love waxing cold, are things distinctly predicted. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
When I speak of a man growing in grace, I mean simply this - that his sense of sin is becoming deeper,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The man who has nothing more than a kind of Sunday religion -- whose Christianity is like his Sunday clothes put on… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived. — 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
No doubt a man may be saved, like the penitent thief, without having received the Lord's Supper. It is not a matter… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
In Christ alone God’s rich provision of salvation for sinners is treasured up: by Christ alone God’s abundant mercies come down from… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The heart of a man can never be satisfied with the things of this world. It is always empty, and hungry, and… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
All men ought to think of Christ because of the office Christ fills between God and man. He is the eternal Son… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
If the Bible is not the Word of God and inspired, the whole of Christendom for 1800 years has been under an… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
A man may commit sin and yet be ignorant of it, and fancy himself innocent when he is guilty... We shall do… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
It is easy to criticize and find fault with the conduct of kings, and write furious articles against them in newspapers, or… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
If you show me a man deliberately living an unholy and licentious life, and yet boasting that his sins are forgiven, I… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Humility and love are precisely the graces which the men of the world can understand, if they do not comprehend doctrines. They… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Without the blessing of the Lord, your best endeavors will do no good. He has the hearts of all men in His… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying.… — 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
