The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
There is no fickleness about Jesus: those whom He loves, He loves to the end. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The Gospel which we possess was not given to us only to be admired, talked of, and professed - but to be… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom. — 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
When I speak of a man growing in grace, I mean simply this - that his sense of sin is becoming deeper,… — 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
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
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
Humility and love are precisely the graces which the men of the world can understand, if they do not comprehend doctrines. They… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Sin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
A right heart leans on Christ, hangs on Christ, builds on Christ and cleaves to Christ. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
We may love money without having it, just as we may have money without loving it. — 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
A tree may always be known by its fruit, and a true Christian may always be discovered by their habits, tastes & affections. — 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 us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading. — 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
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
