Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The standard of the world, and the standard of the Lord Jesus, are indeed widely different. They are more than different. They… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much… — 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
Two-thirds of all the strifes, quarrels, and lawsuits in the world arise from one simple cause-money. — 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
By affliction Christ shows us our emptiness and weakness, draws us to the throne of grace, purifies our affections, weans us from… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The heart of a man can never be satisfied with the things of this world. It is always empty, and hungry, and… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
By affliction He teaches us many precious lessons, which without it we should never learn. By affliction He shows us our emptiness… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
We are evidently no friends of Satan. Like the kings of this world, he wars not against his own subjects. The very… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Humility and love are precisely the graces which the men of the world can understand, if they do not comprehend doctrines. They… — 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
There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying.… — 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
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
To be born again is, as it were, to enter upon a new existence, to have a new mind, a new heart,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Just as the telescope and microscope show us that there is order and design in all the works of God’s hand, from… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
We must cast away everything which hinders us upon our road towards heaven – the lust of the flesh, the lust of… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Let us resolve to talk more to believers about the Bible when we meet them. Alas, the conversation of Christians, when they… — 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 doctrine of Christ crucified is the strength of a Minister. I, for one, would not be without it for all the… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
People are backsliders on their knees long before they backslide openly in the eyes of the world. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The only way to be really happy in such a world as this, is to be ever casting all our cares on… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
There is more to be learned at the foot of the Cross than anywhere else in the world. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Such true worship will stand the test of Christ's great principle, “By their fruits you shall know them”. It sanctifies the Christian's… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Just as the telescope and microscope show us that there is order and design in all the works of God's hand, from… — 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