J.C. Ryle

True holiness does not consist merely of believing and feeling, but of doing and bearing, and a practical exhibition of active and passive grace.

A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.

A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing!

Sound Protestant and Evangelical doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse than useless: it does positive harm. It is despised by keen-sighted and shrewd men of the world, as an unreal and…

A holy man will endeavour to shun every known sin, and to keep every known commandment. He will have a decided bent of mind toward God, a hearty desire to do His will—a greater fear of displeasing Him than of displeasing…

Tell me not of your justification, unless you have also some marks of sanctification. Boast not of Christ's work for you, unless you can show us the Spirit's work in you. Do not think that Christ and the Spirit can ever…

Holiness is the habit of being of one mind with God, according as we find His mind described in Scripture.

Do something, by God's help, to make heaven more full and hell more empty.

Hell itself is truth known too late.

When I speak of a man "growing in grace," I mean simply this — that his sense of sin is becoming deeper, his faith stronger, his hope brighter, his love more extensive, his spiritual-mindedness more marked.

Our Lord has many weak children in His family, many dull pupils in His school, many raw soldiers in His army, and many lame sheep in His flock. Yet He bears with them all, and casts none away.

There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven — the crucified Son of God.

Ignorance of Scripture is the root of every error in religion, and the source of every heresy.

Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

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

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

Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.

It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.

The heart is the part of man which God chiefly notices in religion.

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

Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be got by hard, regular, daily, attentive, wakeful reading.

There is more to be learned at the foot of the cross than anywhere else in the world.

Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.

All the sciences in the world never smoothed down a dying pillow. No earthly philosophy ever supplied hope in death.

A hopeful growing believer is a walking sermon. He preaches far more than I do, for he preaches all the week round, shaming the unconverted, sharpening the converted, showing to all what grace can do.

Salvation in Christ to the very uttermost, but out of Christ no salvation at all.

Remember that you are to venture the whole salvation of your soul on Christ, and on Christ only. You are to cast loose completely and entirely from all other hopes and trusts.