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
Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible. — 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 Copy Share Image
Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us… — 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
There is more Bible buying, Bible selling, Bible printing and Bible distributing than ever before in our nation. We see Bibles in… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
No one ever said at the end of his days; 'I have read my bible too much, I have thought of 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
The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior. — 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
Solid scriptural theology should be valued in the church. Books in which Scripture is reverently regarded as the only rule of faith… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Read the Bible daily. Make it part of your everyday business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Gather… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
There is not enough Bible-reading among us. It is not sufficient to have the Book. We must actually READ it, and PRAY… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Just as the telescope and microscope show us that there is order and design in all the works of God’s hand, from… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
We corrupt the Word of God most dangerously, when we throw any doubt on the plenary inspiration of any part of Holy… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
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 Image
The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 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 wholly of… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
