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.
J. C. RYLESin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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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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The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.
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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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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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Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
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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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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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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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Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.
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Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
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Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.
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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.
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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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Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.
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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.
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Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
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Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.
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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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Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord…He waits quietly for the King.
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It was the whole Trinity, which at the beginning of creation said, “Let us make man”. It was the whole Trinity again, which at the beginning of the Gospel seemed to say, “Let us save man”.
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No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.
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Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
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Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer… He may sometimes keep us long waiting…but He will never send us empty away.
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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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