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
The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Churches may decay and perish; riches may make themselves wings and fly away-but he who builds their happiness on Christ crucified and… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
No doubt men may easily think too little of God the Father, and God the Spirit, but no man ever thought too… — 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
The person that goes regularly and intelligently to the Lord's Table finds it increasingly hard to yield to sin and conform to… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How… — 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
I believe it to be clear evidence of the Spirit’s presence when the Word of God is really precious to a person’s… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
And I believe it to be a signal evidence of the Spirit's presence when the Word is really precious to a man… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
True repentance begins with KNOWLEDGE of sin. It goes on to work SORROW for sin. It leads to CONFESSION of sin before… — 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
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
![“What will it cost [a person] to be a true Christian? It will cost him his self-righteousn ess. He must cast away all pride and high thoughts, and conceit of his own goodness. He must be content to go to heaven as a poor sinner, saved only by free grace, and owing all to the merit and righteousness…” quote by J. C. Ryle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3df/j-c-ryle-789_cast-away_what-will-it-cost-a-person-to-be-a-true_1137557.jpg)
