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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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.
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The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
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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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No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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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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God does not look at riches, titles, education, or beauty. There is only one thing that God does look at, and that is the soul.
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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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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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Tomorrow is the devil’s day, but today is God’s. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.
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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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Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.
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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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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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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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The only way to be really happy in such a world as this, is to be ever casting all our cares on God.
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