The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
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 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
Meekness is one of the brightest graces which can adorn the Christian character. — 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 Copy Share Image
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 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
The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies… — J. C. Ryle 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
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 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 Copy Share Image
The early Christians made it a part of their religion to look for His return. Backward they looked to the cross and… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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 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