471 Quotes by J. C. Ryle

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

The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and...one moment after God commands them to stop.

What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.

Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are, and whom you serve.

The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed.

God does not look at riches, titles, education, or beauty. There is only one thing that God does look at, and that is the soul.

There is something sadly wrong when it is more important to us whether others are a part of our denomination, rather than whether they repent of sin, believe on Christ and live holy lives.

Let us only take heed that this office of Christ is not set before us in vain. It will profit us nothing at the last day that Jesus was a Shepherd, if during our lifetime, we never heard His voice and followed Him. If we love life, let us join His flock without delay.

I declare I know no state of soul more dangerous than to imagine we are born again and sanctifiied by the Holy Spirit, because we have picked up a few religious feelings.