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Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.

J. C. Ryle

If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.
J. C. RYLE

Death God Kindness Life Ourselves Pain Son
Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer… He may sometimes keep us long waiting…but He will never send us empty away.
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Empty Goodness Himself Time Wait
Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
J. C. RYLE

Fear Language Poor Prayer Understand Word Yourself
However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
J. C. RYLE

Corruption Heart Live Ourselves Past
It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.
J. C. RYLE

Friendship Hard Impossible Relative
Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.
J. C. RYLE

God Reason Return Season Sin World
A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
J. C. RYLE

Lecture Minister Time Walk
No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Faith God Heaven Reach Repent
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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Believe Communication God Live Person Proposition True
Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.
J. C. RYLE

Confession God Heart Himself Live Love
Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
J. C. RYLE

Circumstance Happiness Heart State
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.
J. C. RYLE

Act Born Life Man Prayer Woman World
Let us resolve by God’s grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.
J. C. RYLE

God Grace Ourselves Poor Prayer
Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
J. C. RYLE

Body Love Yourself
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. RYLE

Care Day End God Myself Reading Soul Thinking
My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.
J. C. RYLE

Desire Earth Eyes Glory God Myself People Writing

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