The chief end for which Christ lived and died: To provide eternal redemption for sinners. — 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
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
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
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
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 chief end for which He lived and died was to provide eternal redemption for mankind. — 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
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 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
The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
True Christian is not an angel; he is not a halfangelic being, in whom is no weakness, or blemish, or infirmity: he… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
If we would be sanctified, our course is clear and plain—we must begin with Christ. We must go to him as sinners,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Happy are they, who in the matter of marriage observe three rules. The first is to marry only in the Lord, and… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
If we would be sanctified, our course is clear and plain-we must begin with Christ. We must go to Him as sinners,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
In Christ alone God’s rich provision of salvation for sinners is treasured up: by Christ alone God’s abundant mercies come down from… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The love of our Lord Jesus Christ towards sinners is strikingly shown in His steady purpose of heart to die for them. — 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
![“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/i/3df/j-c-ryle-789_cast-away_what-will-it-cost-a-person-to-be-a-true_1137557.png)
