No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
J. C. RYLEWe must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ’s steps, and let the world say what it likes.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
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Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
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A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
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True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person – Jesus Christ.
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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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Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
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Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
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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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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.
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Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.
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To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
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Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
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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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It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.
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