The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
J. C. RYLEThe world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
J. C. RYLEIt costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.
J. C. RYLEIf you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to him.
J. C. RYLEJust as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.
J. C. RYLEWe know but little of true Christianity, if we don’t feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
J. C. RYLESicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.
J. C. RYLELet it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.
J. C. RYLEIt must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.
J. C. RYLELet us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.
J. C. RYLEI fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.
J. C. RYLELet us beware of repentance without evidence.
J. C. RYLELet us resolve by God’s grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.
J. C. RYLEMy chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.
J. C. RYLEHow is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?
J. C. RYLEWealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
J. C. RYLENever does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.
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