Top 300 J. C. Ryle Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Prayer is the mightiest weapon that God has placed in our hands.”

— J. C. Ryle

2. “Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.”

— J. C. Ryle

3. “The heart that has really tasted the grace of Christ, will instinctively hate sin.”

— J. C. Ryle

4. “The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.”

— J. C. Ryle

5. “To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.”

— J. C. Ryle

6. “There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.”

— J. C. Ryle

7. “Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.”

— J. C. Ryle

8. “The best of men are men at best.”

— J. C. Ryle

9. “Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.”

— J. C. Ryle

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10. “Tomorrow is the devil’s day, but today is God’s. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.”

— J. C. Ryle

11. “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

12. “Holiness is the habit of being of one mind with God, according as we find His mind described in Scripture. It is the habit of agreeing in God’s judgment, hating what He hates, loving what He loves, and measuring everything in this world by the standard of His Word.”

— J. C. Ryle

13. “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

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14. “Election is always to sanctification. Where there is no visible fruit of sanctification, we may be sure there is no election.”

— J. C. Ryle

15. “A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.”

— J. C. Ryle

16. “Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God.”

— J. C. Ryle

17. “Christ is never fully valued, until sin is clearly seen. We must know the depth and malignity of our disease, in order to appreciate the great Physician.”

— J. C. Ryle

18. “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

19. “Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.”

— J. C. Ryle

20. “No salvation without regeneration – no spiritual life without a new birth – no heaven without a new heart.”

— J. C. Ryle

21. “Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.”

— J. C. Ryle

22. “Oh, dear friend, if you love your children, I charge you, do not let the early impression of a habit of prayer slip by. If you train your children to do anything, train them, at least, to have a habit of prayer.”

— J. C. Ryle

23. “Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.”

— J. C. Ryle

24. “No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.”

— J. C. Ryle

25. “Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.”

— J. C. Ryle

26. “Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.”

— J. C. Ryle

27. “Blessed are they who feel like pilgrims and strangers in this life, and whose best things are all to come!”

— J. C. Ryle

28. “We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.”

— J. C. Ryle

29. “God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.”

— J. C. Ryle

30. “A converted man will not wish to go to heaven alone.”

— J. C. Ryle

31. “Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.”

— J. C. Ryle

32. “Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.”

— J. C. Ryle

33. “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

34. “Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God’s sovereignty.”

— J. C. Ryle

35. “Let us beware of repentance without evidence.”

— J. C. Ryle

36. “I believe it to be clear evidence of the Spirit’s presence when the Word of God is really precious to a person’s soul.”

— J. C. Ryle

37. “O Christian, look up and take comfort. Jesus has prepared a place for you, and those who follow Him shall never perish, neither shall anyone pluck them out of His hands.”

— J. C. Ryle

38. “To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.”

— J. C. Ryle

39. “Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.”

— J. C. Ryle

40. “We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ’s steps, and let the world say what it likes.”

— J. C. Ryle

41. “Hell itself is truth known too late.”

— J. C. Ryle

42. “There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven – the crucified Son of God.”

— J. C. Ryle

43. “Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations.”

— J. C. Ryle

44. “A trial is an instrument by which our Father in heaven makes Christians more holy.”

— J. C. Ryle

45. “No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.”

— J. C. Ryle

46. “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.”

— J. C. Ryle

47. “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.”

— J. C. Ryle

48. “The children of God all have a cross to bear. A suffering Savior generally has suffering disciples.”

— J. C. Ryle

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

— J. C. Ryle

50. “Christ’s death is the Christian’s life. Christ’s cross is the Christian’s title to heaven. Christ “lifted up” and put to shame on Calvary is the ladder by which Christians “enter into the holiest,” and are at length landed in glory.”

— J. C. Ryle