Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The faith that has not a sanctifying influence on the character is no better than the faith of devils. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Politics, or controversy, or party spirit, or worldliness, have eaten out the heart of lively piety in too many of us. The… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear? — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is more Bible buying, Bible selling, Bible printing and Bible distributing than ever before in our nation. We see Bibles in… — 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
The resurrection of Christ is one of the foundation stones of Christianity. It was the seal of the great work that He… — 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
Solid scriptural theology should be valued in the church. Books in which Scripture is reverently regarded as the only rule of faith… — 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 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
Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without prayer; friendships formed… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
To talk of comparing the Bible with other "sacred books" so called, such as the Koran...or the book of Mormon, is positively… — 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
The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and not a supernatural, divine revelation, how is it that it has wrought such… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The true Christian does not need to be reminded that they have a crucified Master. They OFTEN think of 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
The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Growth in grace is one way to be happy in our religion. God has wisely linked together our comfort and our increase… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
A Christian is nothing more than a sinner who has found out their sinfulness, and has learned the blessed secret of living… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I declare I know no state of soul more dangerous than to imagine we are born again and sanctifiied by the Holy… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I declare I know no state of soul more dangerous than to imagine we are born again and sanctified by the Holy… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
We know but little of true Christianity, if we don't feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people. — 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
