Sicknesses, 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. RYLEBeware 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.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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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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What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
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Fathers 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.
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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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Tomorrow is the devil’s day, but today is God’s. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.
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Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
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If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.
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The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.
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Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
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I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.
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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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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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God knew what we were before conversion – wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion – weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.
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There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
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The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.
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