So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man. — J. C. Ryle Happiness Copy Share Image
Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world… — J. C. Ryle Affection Copy Share Image
Let us resolve by God's grace that, however feeble and poor our prayers may seem to us, we will pray on. — 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 Being real 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
Sin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. — J. C. Ryle Christ 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
A sin...consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God — J. C. Ryle Conformity Copy Share Image
Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among… — J. C. Ryle Acting 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
Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as… — J. C. Ryle Anxieties Copy Share Image
Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training… — J. C. Ryle Children 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 Apostles Copy Share Image
Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your… — J. C. Ryle Action Copy Share Image
If we would be sanctified, our course is clear and plain—we must begin with Christ. We must go to him as sinners,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Happy are they, who in the matter of marriage observe three rules. The first is to marry only in the Lord, and… — J. C. Ryle Angel 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 Baptism Copy Share Image
Such true worship will stand the test of Christ's great principle, “By their fruits you shall know them”. It sanctifies the Christian's… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without prayer; friendships formed… — J. C. Ryle Bible 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 Affliction Copy Share Image
The rulers of the earth plan, and scheme, and make laws, and change laws, and war, and pull down one, and raise… — J. C. Ryle Earth Copy Share Image
I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at… — J. C. Ryle Believer Copy Share Image
