J. C. Ryle

Follow Christ for His own sake, if you follow Him at all.

— J. C. Ryle

Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.

— J. C. Ryle

Men fall in private long before they fall in public.

— J. C. Ryle

If you want to warm a church, put a stove in the pulpit.

— J. C. Ryle

We have the truth and we need not be afraid to say so.

— J. C. Ryle

Prayer is the very life-breath of true Christianity.

— J. C. Ryle

To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.

— J. C. Ryle

Let us beware of repentance without evidence.

— J. C. Ryle

If we would know whether our faith is genuine, we do well to ask ourselves how we are living.

— J. C. Ryle

The Lord Jesus is "a friend who never changes." There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to…

— J. C. Ryle

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

No salvation without regeneration - no spiritual life without a new birth - no heaven without a new heart.

— J. C. Ryle

We want more men and women who walk with God and before God, like Enoch and Abraham.

— J. C. Ryle

I believe it to be clear evidence of the Spirit’s presence when the Word of God is really precious to a person’s…

— J. C. Ryle

We may love money without having it, just as we may have money without loving it.

— J. C. Ryle

If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.

— J. C. Ryle

Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear... Imitation is a…

— J. C. Ryle

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

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

He that has trained his children for heaven, rather than for earth- for God rather than for man- he is the parent…

— J. C. Ryle

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

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

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

People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which…

— J. C. Ryle

There are few professing Christians, it may be feared, who strive to imitate Christ in the matter of private devotion. There is…

— J. C. Ryle

If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange…

— J. C. Ryle

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

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

The more I read, the less I admire modern theology. the more I study the productions of the new schools of theological…

— J. C. Ryle

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

Churches may decay and perish; riches may make themselves wings and fly away-but he who builds their happiness on Christ crucified and…

— J. C. Ryle

What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases…

— J. C. Ryle

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

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

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

Infidelity and skepticism abound everywhere. In one form or another they are to be found in every rank and class of society.…

— J. C. Ryle

For my own part, I believe that in dealing with skeptics, and unbelievers, and enemies of the Bible, Christians are too apt…

— J. C. Ryle

The saddest symptom about many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict and fight against spiritual apathy in their…

— J. C. Ryle

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

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