J. C. Ryle on death
J. C. Ryle116 quotes“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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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord’s people.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must ‘plead guilty’ before God can declare us innocent.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle O Christian, look up and take comfort. Jesus has prepared a place for you, and those who follow Him shall never perish, neither shall anyone pluck them out of His hands.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle Since Satan can’t destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord…He waits quietly for the King.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle Just 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. RyleJ. C. Ryle
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