How can we love sin, when we remember that because of our sins Jesus died? — 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
So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them,… — 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
HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The first step towards attaining a higher standard of holiness is to realize more fully the amazing sinfulness of sin. — 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
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
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
There is something sadly wrong when it is more important to us whether others are a part of our denomination, rather than… — 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
We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God and seek… — 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
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
Walk more closely with God. Get nearer to Christ. Seek to exchange hope for assurance. Seek to feel the witness of the… — 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
Let us serve Him faithfully as our Master. Let us obey Him loyally as our King. Let us study His teachings as… — 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
All the simplicity in the world can do no good, unless you preach the simple gospel of Jesus Christ so fully and… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The heart that has really tasted the grace of Christ, will instinctively hate sin. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil… — 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
Christ is never fully valued, until sin is clearly seen. We must know the depth and malignity of our disease, in order… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
A sin...consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God — 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
