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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. Ryle

We know but little of true Christianity, if we don’t feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
J. C. RYLE

Feeling People Religion Soul True
There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.
J. C. RYLE

Kind Offend Religious Sacrifice World Worth
The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.
J. C. RYLE

Death God Live Presence Ready
Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
J. C. RYLE

God Offend Religion
My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.
J. C. RYLE

Desire Earth Eyes Glory God Myself People Writing
It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.
J. C. RYLE

Body Heart Home Religion Satisfaction
According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.
J. C. RYLE

Heaven Hell Man Religious World
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.
J. C. RYLE

Give Up Hypocrisy Regret Repent Sin Sorry
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
J. C. RYLE

Live Place Prayer Sin Togetherness
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. RYLE

Anxiety Gold Humble Loss Sick
No one ever said at the end of his days; ‘I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul’
J. C. RYLE

Care Day End God Myself Reading Soul Thinking
HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.
J. C. RYLE

Death Hate Play Sin
Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
J. C. RYLE

Born Day Himself Man
A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
J. C. RYLE

Cheap Cost End Evidence Religious Worth
Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord…He waits quietly for the King.
J. C. RYLE

Believe Himself Patience Quiet Wait
There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
J. C. RYLE

Account Action Consequence Forever

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