Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.
J. C. RYLESin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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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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Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
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There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven – the crucified Son of God.
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Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
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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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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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What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
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That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.
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No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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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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No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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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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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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The eye of God! Think of that. Everywhere, in every house, in every field, in every room, in every company, alone or in a crowd, the eye of God is always upon you.
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