Men Quotes by J. C. Ryle

To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.

— J. C. Ryle

Men fall in private long before they fall in public.

— J. C. Ryle

A converted man will not wish to go to heaven alone

— J. C. Ryle

The best of men are men at best

— J. C. Ryle

We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.

— J. C. Ryle

Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.

— J. C. Ryle

According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.

— J. C. Ryle

We want more men and women who walk with God and before God, like Enoch and Abraham.

— J. C. Ryle

A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers.

— J. C. Ryle

Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.

— J. C. Ryle

The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.

— J. C. Ryle

So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.

— J. C. Ryle

Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a…

— J. C. Ryle

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

Doubting does not prove that a man has no faith, but only that his faith is small. And even when our faith…

— J. C. Ryle

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No doubt a man may be saved, like the penitent thief, without having received the Lord's Supper. It is not a matter…

— J. C. Ryle

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

All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one…

— J. C. Ryle

The more I read, the less I admire modern theology. the more I study the productions of the new schools of theological…

— J. C. Ryle

There are few professing Christians, it may be feared, who strive to imitate Christ in the matter of private devotion. There is…

— J. C. Ryle

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

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

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

When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance.

— J. C. Ryle

A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.

— J. C. Ryle

We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.

— J. C. Ryle

The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known.

— J. C. Ryle

Nothing perhaps affects man's character more than the company he keeps

— J. C. Ryle

The minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man.

— J. C. Ryle

The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all…

— J. C. Ryle

In justification the word to be addressed to man is believe - only believe; in sanctification the word must be 'watch, pray,…

— J. C. Ryle

True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.

— J. C. Ryle

The man who has nothing more than a kind of Sunday religion -- whose Christianity is like his Sunday clothes put on…

— J. C. Ryle