There are four great temptations that plague most young men: sloth, lust, love of pleasure, and peer pressure. J.C. Ryle—the last of the great Puritans—tackles each of these subjects with a tenderness and tact which is unsurpassed. If it was difficult to be a young man in the days of the nineteenth century when Ryle first penned Thoughts for Young Men, it is all the more difficult to be a young man in the twenty-first century world of image-overload, radical individualism, and rampant sensuality. Thoughts for Young Men remains to this day the most relevant and helpful book on the subject in print.
There are four great temptations that plague most young men: sloth, lust, love of pleasure, and peer pressure. J.C. Ryle—the last of the great Puritans—tackles each of these subjects with a tenderness and tact which is unsurpassed. If it was difficult to be a young man in the days of the nineteenth century when Ryle first penned Thoughts for Young Men, it is all the more difficult to be a young man in the twenty-first century world of image-overload, radical individualism, and rampant sensuality. Thoughts for Young Men remains to this day the most relevant and helpful book on the subject in print.