We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
J. C. RYLEFathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear… Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.
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Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
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Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.
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The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must ‘plead guilty’ before God can declare us innocent.
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We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.
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Never be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!
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A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
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HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.
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Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
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Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray.
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True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person – Jesus Christ.
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Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.
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My 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.
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Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
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Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
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