J. C. Ryle Quotes

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the defense which belongs to the Day of Judgment, would make such damaging admissions, would clear away so many artificial virtues, would tell such tragedies of weakness and failure, that a man would sooner be misunderstood and censured by the world than exposed to that awful and merciless eulogy.

We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.

It is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged.

A man whose life has been dishonorable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers.

It is a fair adornment of a man and a great convenience both to himself and to all those with whom he converses and deals, to act uprightly, uniformly, and consistently. The practice of piety frees a man from interior distraction and from irresolution in his mind, from duplicity or inconstancy in his character, and from confusion in his proceedings, and consequently securing for others freedom from deception and disappointment in their transactions with him.

Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life.

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of light. Concealment avails him nothing; boasting nothing. There is confession in the glances of our eyes; in our smiles; in salutations; and the grasp of hands.

I've always been who I've been. I've always been this person.

You can't be somebody that you're not, because all of you shows up.

A respectable person is invariably unrespectable within.

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

We must be the same person in private and in public. Only the Christian worldview gives us the basis for this kind of integrity.

MANY MANAGE TO SEPARATE THEIR LIFE FROM THEIR FILMS. THEY LIVE ONE WAY AND EXPRESS OTHER IDEAS IN THEIR WORKS. THEY ARE ABLE TO SPLIT THEIR CONSCIENCE. I CAN'T. TO ME CINEMA IS NOT JUST MY JOB: IT'S MY LIFE, AND EACH FILM IS AN ACT OF MY LIFE.

It is not enough to say we are Christians. We must live the faith, not only with our words, but with our actions.

I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read.

Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much.

We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us. But we make ourselves true inside by manifesting the truth as we see it.

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

The key to success is to be true to who you really are.

Live from the heart of yourself

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.