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All converted people should labor to adorn the doctrine they profess by humility. If they can do nothing else, they can strive to be humble. — J.C. Ryle

Never make an intimate friend of anyone who is not a friend of God. — J.C. Ryle

Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord's people. — J.C. Ryle

Since Satan can't destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution. — J.C. Ryle

Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ. — J.C. Ryle

The love of Christ to sinners is the very essence and marrow of the Gospel. — J.C. Ryle

Doubting does not prove that a man has no faith, but only that his faith is small. And even when our faith is small, the Lord is ready to help us. — J.C. Ryle

Let us read the Bible reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in it. — J.C. Ryle

That Bible is read best - which is practiced most! — J.C. Ryle

Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven. — J.C. Ryle

Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross. — J.C. Ryle

People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger of hell. — J.C. Ryle

Men fall in private long before they fall in public. — J.C. Ryle

HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred. — J.C. Ryle

Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary. — J.C. Ryle

A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers. — J.C. Ryle

The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty. — J.C. Ryle

A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long. — J.C. Ryle

Conduct is the grand test of character. Words are one great evidence of the condition of the heart. — J.C. Ryle

In justification the word to be addressed to man is believe - only believe; in sanctification the word must be 'watch, pray, and fight.' — J.C. Ryle

One single soul saved shall outlive and outweigh all the kingdoms of the
world. — J.C. Ryle

Every man has power to 'lose his own soul' (Matthew 26:26). — J.C. Ryle

The temple in which the Lord Jesus delights most, is a broken and contrite heart, renewed by the Holy Spirit. — J.C. Ryle

The only way to be really happy, in such a world as this is to be ever casting all our cares on God. — J.C. Ryle

The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent. — J.C. Ryle

True Christians delight to read the Scriptures, because they tell them about their beloved Savior. — J.C. Ryle

God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved. — J.C. Ryle

The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God. — J.C. Ryle

Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus. — J.C. Ryle

We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam. — J.C. Ryle

Unbelief about the existence and personality of Satan has often proved the first step to unbelief about God. — J.C. Ryle

Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts. — J.C. Ryle

Christ is never fully valued, until sin is
clearly seen. — 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 their sins. — J.C. Ryle

Wherever we may be, or whatever our circumstances, the Lord Jesus sees them. We are never beyond the reach of His care. — J.C. Ryle

Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book. — J.C. Ryle

I entreat my readers, besides the Bible and the Articles, to read history. — J.C. Ryle

A zealous Savior ought to have zealous disciples. — J.C. Ryle

No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees. — J.C. Ryle

The best of men are men at best — J.C. Ryle

No person ever thought too much of Christ. — J.C. Ryle

Surely none are so crazy as those who are content to live unprepared to die. Surely the unbelief of men is the most amazing thing in the world. — J.C. Ryle

Assurance of hope is more than life, it is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty. — J.C. Ryle

Prayer is the very life-breath of true Christianity. — J.C. Ryle

Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer ... He may sometimes keep us long waiting ... but He will never send us empty away. — J.C. Ryle

If I never spoke of hell, I should think I had kept back something that was profitable, and should look on myself as an accomplice of the devil. — J.C. Ryle

Do you wish to grow in grace and be a holy Christian? Then never forget the value of prayer. — J.C. Ryle

Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord ... He waits quietly for the King. — J.C. Ryle

It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear. — J.C. Ryle

Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things. — J.C. Ryle

Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can. — J.C. Ryle

If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life. — J.C. Ryle

The chief end for which Christ lived and died: To provide eternal redemption for sinners. — J.C. Ryle

Prayer is the mightiest weapon that God has placed in our hands. — J.C. Ryle

How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear? — J.C. Ryle

Prosperity is a great mercy, but adversity is a greater one, if it brings us to Christ. — J.C. Ryle

Let us learn to be patient in the days of darkness, if we know anything of vital union with Christ. — J.C. Ryle

True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience. — J.C. Ryle

Naked we came upon earth, and naked we go forth, and of all our possessions, we can carry nothing with us. — J.C. Ryle

Troublous times, departures from the faith, evil men waxing worse and worse, love waxing cold, are things distinctly predicted. — J.C. Ryle

According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven. — J.C. Ryle

A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace. — J.C. Ryle

Men try to cheat themselves into the belief that sin is not quite so sinful as God says it is, and that they are not so bad as they really are. — J.C. Ryle

We have the truth and we need not be afraid to say so. — J.C. Ryle

No salvation without regeneration - no spiritual life without a new birth - no heaven without a new heart. — J.C. Ryle

Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will. — J.C. Ryle

The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom. — 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

We corrupt the Word of God most dangerously, when we throw any doubt on the plenary inspiration of any part of Holy Scripture. — J.C. Ryle

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

He and sin must quarrel, if he and God are to be friends. — J.C. Ryle

Where there is no heart, there may be lip-work and tongue-work, but there is nothing that God listens to, - there is no prayer. — J.C. Ryle

A right heart leans on Christ, hangs on Christ, builds on Christ and cleaves to Christ. — J.C. Ryle

Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell. — J.C. Ryle

There are not a few people to whom I would far rather speak about their own sins, than tell them their children had done anything wrong. — J.C. Ryle

A trial is an instrument by which our Father in heaven makes Christians more holy. — J.C. Ryle

Where no visible fruit can be found, there you may be sure is no conversion. — J.C. Ryle

Prayer is the surest remedy against the devil and besetting sins. — J.C. Ryle

The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed. — J.C. Ryle

Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world. — J.C. Ryle

Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading. — J.C. Ryle

The Gospel which we possess was not given to us only to be admired, talked of, and professed - but to be practiced. — J.C. Ryle

Justification is the act of God about us and is not easily discerned by others. Sanctification is the work of God within us and cannot be hid — J.C. Ryle

There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account. — J.C. Ryle

Fear puts an end to openness of manner; fear leads to concealment; fear sows the seed of much hypocrisy, and leads to many a lie. — J.C. Ryle

I am one of those old-fashioned ministers who believe the whole Bible and everything that it contains. — J.C. Ryle

Who shall dare to talk of strength when David can fall? — J.C. Ryle

The person that goes regularly and intelligently to the Lord's Table finds it increasingly hard to yield to sin and conform to the world. — J.C. Ryle

Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God. — J.C. Ryle

No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart. — J.C. Ryle

To be truly happy - a man must have sources of gladness which are not dependent on anything in this world. - J. C. Ryle — Randy Alcorn

A Bible reading laity is a nation's surest defence against error. — J.C. Ryle

Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness. — J.C. Ryle

A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour. — J.C. Ryle

Dim or indistinct views of sin are the origin of most of the errors, heresies and false doctrines of the present day. If — J.C. Ryle

Am I honest? Am I sincere? Do I really desire first the praise of God? — J.C. Ryle

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

Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time. — J.C. Ryle

Experience," says the proverb, "is a hard school to attend, but fools will learn in no — J.C. Ryle

If you and sin are friends, you and God are not yet reconciled. — J.C. Ryle