Category: j.c. ryle

  • Become Friends With The World And Become An Enemy With God

    In my reading of Ryle’s Holiness today, I came across this convicting quote on Lot’s wife and her looking back at Sodom as it was being destroyed, motivated by her idolatrous love of the world: That look was a little thing, but it told of secret love of the world in Lot’s wife. Her heart […]

  • The Cost Of Following Christ

    I wanted to share a quote I found very encouraging from J.C. Ryle’s book Holiness (free here) on the cost of following Christ: In the last place, it will cost a man the favour of the world. He must be content to be thought ill of by man if he pleases God. He must count it no […]