J. C. Ryle on intellectual
J. C. Ryle116 quotes“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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Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle 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. RyleJ. C. Ryle Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle The only way to be really happy in such a world as this, is to be ever casting all our cares on God.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle 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. RyleJ. C. Ryle The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle 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. RyleJ. C. Ryle The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle God knew what we were before conversion – wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion – weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle
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