Election is always to sanctification. Where there is no visible fruit of sanctification, we may be sure there is no election.
J. C. RyleWhen a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right.
J. C. RyleThe man who has nothing more than a kind of Sunday religion -- whose Christianity is like his Sunday clothes put on once a week, and then laid aside -- such a man cannot, of course, be expected to care about growth in grace.
J. C. Ryle