However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
J. C. RYLETo say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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Never be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!
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Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
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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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Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
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The Gospel which we possess was not given to us only to be admired, talked of, and professed – but to be practiced.
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To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.
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Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.
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Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.
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The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
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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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Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
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The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.
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And I believe it to be a signal evidence of the Spirit’s presence when the Word is really precious to a man ‘s soul.
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I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.
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