We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
J. C. RYLEPeople 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.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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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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If you want to find out how much someone loves you, find out how much they pray for you.
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No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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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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Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.
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There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
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Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.
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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.
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The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.
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Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.
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It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.
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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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Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ’s followers get from the world.
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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.
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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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