Christianity Quotes by J. C. Ryle

Prayer is the very life-breath of true Christianity.

— J. C. Ryle

Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.

— J. C. Ryle

Do you wish to grow in grace and be a holy Christian? Then never forget the value of prayer.

— J. C. Ryle

Let us be real, honest, and sincere in our Christianity. We cannot deceive an all-seeing God.

— J. C. Ryle

True Christians delight to read the Scriptures, because they tell them about their beloved Savior.

— J. C. Ryle

A trial is an instrument by which our Father in heaven makes Christians more holy.

— J. C. Ryle

The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.

— J. C. Ryle

The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.

— J. C. Ryle

The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed.

— J. C. Ryle

If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and not a supernatural, divine revelation, how is it that it has wrought such…

— J. C. Ryle

It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.

— J. C. Ryle

Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see…

— J. C. Ryle

We know but little of true Christianity, if we don't feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.

— J. C. Ryle

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

A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity,…

— J. C. Ryle

The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.

— J. C. Ryle

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

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

What will it cost [a person] to be a true Christian? It will cost him his self-righteousn ess. He must cast away…

— J. C. Ryle

Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some…

— J. C. Ryle

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

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

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

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

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

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

For my own part, I believe that in dealing with skeptics, and unbelievers, and enemies of the Bible, Christians are too apt…

— J. C. Ryle

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

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

The saddest symptom about many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict and fight against spiritual apathy in their…

— J. C. Ryle

Meekness is one of the brightest graces which can adorn the Christian character.

— J. C. Ryle

A right knowledge of sin lies at the root of all saving Christianity.

— J. C. Ryle

No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.

— J. C. Ryle

Who shall dare to talk of strength when David can fall?

— J. C. Ryle

Never be satisfied with the world's standard of Christianity!

— J. C. Ryle

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

Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better…

— J. C. Ryle

The true Christian delights to hear something about their Master. They like those sermons best which are full of Christ.

— J. C. Ryle

Millions of people profess and call themselves Christians, whom the Apostle Paul would not have called Christians at all.

— J. C. Ryle

How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?

— J. C. Ryle