Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray.
J. C. RYLESin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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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.
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The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.
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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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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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Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are, and whom you serve.
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If you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to him.
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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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Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
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Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
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The Lord Jesus is “a friend who never changes.” There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.
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Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
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Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
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We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
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If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.
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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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