The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.
J. C. RYLEAre you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
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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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Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
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The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
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It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.
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Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
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Never be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!
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The only way to be really happy in such a world as this, is to be ever casting all our cares on God.
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Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.
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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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Since Satan can’t destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
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How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?
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Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.
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We know but little of true Christianity, if we don’t feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
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Let us resolve by God’s grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.
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