God does not look at riches, titles, education, or beauty. There is only one thing that God does look at, and that is the soul.
J. C. RYLEThere is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven – the crucified Son of God.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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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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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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People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.
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If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.
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The eye of God! Think of that. Everywhere, in every house, in every field, in every room, in every company, alone or in a crowd, the eye of God is always upon you.
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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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Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.
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No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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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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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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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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Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.
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Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
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Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.
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A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
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If you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to him.
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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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The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.
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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 blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must ‘plead guilty’ before God can declare us innocent.
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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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There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
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Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.
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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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