The cause of Christ does not need less working, but it does need among the workers, more praying. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The love of our Lord Jesus Christ towards sinners is strikingly shown in His steady purpose of heart to die for them. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The chief end for which Christ lived and died: To provide eternal redemption for sinners. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
If you do not love Christ, let me plainly tell you what is the reason: You have no sense of debt to… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
A Christian is nothing more than a sinner who has found out their sinfulness, and has learned the blessed secret of living… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse than useless; it does positive harm. Something… — 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
By affliction He teaches us many precious lessons, which without it we should never learn. By affliction He shows us our emptiness… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
What you think now about the cross of Christ, I cannot tell; but I can wish you nothing better than this -… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
On the one hand stand salvation by free grace for Christ's sake; but on the other stands renewal of the carnal heart… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
There is something sadly wrong when it is more important to us whether others are a part of our denomination, rather than… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Let us watch against pride in every shape - pride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride of our own goodness. Nothing is… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I fear it is sometimes forgotten that God has married together justification and sanctification. They are distinct and different things, beyond question,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Let us learn to be patient in the days of darkness, if we know anything of vital union with Christ. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness. — 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 Copy Share Image
Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
A right heart leans on Christ, hangs on Christ, builds on Christ and cleaves to Christ. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Prosperity is a great mercy, but adversity is a greater one, if it brings us to Christ. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him… — 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
When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance. — 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
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
Churches may decay and perish; riches may make themselves wings and fly away-but he who builds their happiness on Christ crucified and… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches,… — 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
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
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
