What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
J. C. RYLEIf men come among you who do NOT preach all the counsel of God, who do NOT preach of Christ, sin, holiness, of ruin, redemption, and regeneration, and do NOT preach of these things in a Scriptural way, you ought to cease to hear them.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.
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The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
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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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Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
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Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord…He waits quietly for the King.
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The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.
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However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
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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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Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.
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The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.
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There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.
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We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
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Wherever we may be, or whatever our circumstances, the Lord Jesus sees them. We are never beyond the reach of His care.
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The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.
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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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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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God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.
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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.
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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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To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
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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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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’
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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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It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.
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I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.
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