Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear… Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.
J. C. RYLEOur Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.
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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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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.
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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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The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
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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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Since Satan can’t destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
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Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.
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It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.
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Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.
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There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.
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Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.
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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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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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Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
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