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. RYLEThe nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
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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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The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.
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How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?
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Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
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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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Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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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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Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
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Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
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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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Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
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Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.
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Beware 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.
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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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