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.
J. C. RYLEFear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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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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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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Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.
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The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.
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The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
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It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.
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Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.
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It was the whole Trinity, which at the beginning of creation said, “Let us make man”. It was the whole Trinity again, which at the beginning of the Gospel seemed to say, “Let us save man”.
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Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.
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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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The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must ‘plead guilty’ before God can declare us innocent.
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That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.
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The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.
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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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Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ’s followers get from the world.
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