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
So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man. — 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
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
How can we love sin, when we remember that because of our sins Jesus died? — 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
Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from… — 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
Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The early Christians made it a part of their religion to look for His return. Backward they looked to the cross and… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
True repentance is no light matter. It is a thorough change of heart about sin, a change showing itself in godly sorrow… — 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
A man may commit sin and yet be ignorant of it, and fancy himself innocent when he is guilty... We shall do… — 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
