J. C. Ryle Quotes

Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

Most of us want to have enough... good works to get into heaven, but enough bad works to be fun.

Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing—finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

There is the moral spectrum in 'Fargo,' and you see it in other Coen brothers movies, where you have a very good character on one end and a very bad character on the other.

Bad company corrupts good character.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.

If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.

This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.