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. RYLEFaith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.
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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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HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.
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Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps
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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.
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God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.
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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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And I believe it to be a signal evidence of the Spirit’s presence when the Word is really precious to a man ‘s soul.
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Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.
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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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Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
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Let us resolve by God’s grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.
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No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord’s people.
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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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