It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.
J. C. RYLEBetter to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.
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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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Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
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We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
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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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Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
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Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer… He may sometimes keep us long waiting…but He will never send us empty away.
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The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
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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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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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Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
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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.
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According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.
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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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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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