If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
If we would know whether our faith is genuine, we do well to ask ourselves how we are living. — 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
Prosperity is a great mercy, but adversity is a greater one, if it brings us to Christ. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
If you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to… — 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
If I never spoke of hell, I should think I had kept back something that was profitable, and should look on myself… — 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
Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world… — 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… — 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
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
All converted people should labor to adorn the doctrine they profess by humility. If they can do nothing else, they can strive… — 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
Examine your own hearts. Do you see there any habit or custom which you know is wrong in the sight of God?… — 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
If we would have good ministers, we must remember our Lord’s example, and pray for them. Their work is heavy. Their responsibility… — 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
A zealous man feels that like a lamp he is made to burn; and if consumed in burning, he has but done… — 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
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
It may well be feared, that there is not enough Biblereading among us. It is not sufficient to have the Book. We… — 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
We have no reason to be discouraged and cast down if the religion we profess is not popular and few agree with… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
If the Bible is not the Word of God and inspired, the whole of Christendom for 1800 years has been under an… — 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
Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
If you profess to be a child of God, leave it to the Lord Jesus to sanctify you in His own way. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
If you would train your children rightly, train them in the way they should go and not in the way they would. — 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
If you want to find out how much someone loves you, find out how much they pray for you. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
What would you expect? Sin will not come to you saying, 'I am sin.' It would do little harm if it did.… — 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
If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
But if there is one thing clearly and plainly laid down about election, it is this: that elect men and women may… — 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
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
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
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
We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share
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
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
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
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
If we would know whether our faith is genuine, we do well to ask ourselves how we are living. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share
To be born again is, as it were, to enter upon a new existence, to have a new mind, a new heart, new views,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share
