A trial is an instrument by which our Father in heaven makes Christians more holy. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven - the crucified Son of God. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty… — 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
That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
By affliction Christ shows us our emptiness and weakness, draws us to the throne of grace, purifies our affections, weans us from… — 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
Such true worship will stand the test of Christ's great principle, “By their fruits you shall know them”. It sanctifies the Christian's… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in… — 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
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
Without holiness on earth we shall never be prepared to enjoy heaven. Heaven is a holy place. The Lord of heaven is… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the… — 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
Lastly, we must be holy, because without holiness on earth - we will never be prepared to enjoy Heaven. ...I do not… — 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
We must cast away everything which hinders us upon our road towards heaven – the lust of the flesh, the lust of… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The cross is the foundation of the Bible: If you have not yet found out that Christ crucified is the foundation of… — 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
Do something, by God’s help, to make heaven more full and hell more empty. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell. — 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
He that has trained his children for heaven, rather than for earth- for God rather than for man- he is the parent… — 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
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
In Christ alone God’s rich provision of salvation for sinners is treasured up: by Christ alone God’s abundant mercies come down from… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
It costs something to be a real Christian, according to the standard of the Bible. There are enemies to be overcome, battles… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
If you show me a man deliberately living an unholy and licentious life, and yet boasting that his sins are forgiven, I… — 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
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
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