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
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 Copy Share Image
To be born again is, as it were, to enter upon a new existence, to have a new mind, a new heart,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
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
Sanctification is that inward spiritual work which the Lord Jesus Christ works in a man by the Holy Spirit when He calls… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
No salvation without regeneration - no spiritual life without a new birth - no heaven without a new heart. — 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
The heart of a man can never be satisfied with the things of this world. It is always empty, and hungry, and… — 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
The heart that has really tasted the grace of Christ, will instinctively hate sin. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil… — 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
The Christian who keeps their heart diligently in little things shall be kept from great falls. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them.… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Conduct is the grand test of character. Words are one great evidence of the condition of the heart. — 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
It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The Christian who keeps his heart diligently in little things shall be kept from great falls. — 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
However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The temple in which the Lord Jesus delights most, is a broken and contrite heart, renewed by the Holy Spirit. — 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