True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.
J. C. RyleWe are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.
J. C. RyleA man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.
J. C. RyleThe saddest symptom about many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict and fight against spiritual apathy in their Christianity. They eat, they drink, they dress, they work, they amuse themselves, they get money, they spend money, they go through a brief round of formal religious services once or twice every week. But of the great spiritual warfare - its watchings and strugglings, its agonies and anxieties, its battles and contests - of all things they appear to know nothing at all. Let us take care that this case is not our own.
J. C. Ryle