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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.

J. C. Ryle

Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
J. C. RYLE

Beautiful Grace Humility Pride Rare Sin
The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must ‘plead guilty’ before God can declare us innocent.
J. C. RYLE

Blood Declare God Innocence Sin
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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Kind Offend Religious Sacrifice World Worth
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
J. C. RYLE

Live Place Prayer Sin Togetherness
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.
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Drive Ourselves Religion Thinking Trial World
To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.
J. C. RYLE

Give Up Hypocrisy Regret Repent Sin Sorry
Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
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Guilty Peace Portion Sacrifice Truth
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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Defective Heaven Hell Joy Misery Sad Sadness
Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.
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Alone Children Leaving Mistake Small Training
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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Combination Dangerous Forget Harm Heart Ourselves World
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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Beginning Creation Man Save
Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.
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Action Fear Guard Imagination Sin Yourself
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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Believe Communication God Live Person Proposition True
Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
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Beginning Book Heart Learning Need Prayer Willing Wisdom
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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Care Day End God Myself Reading Soul Thinking
Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.
J. C. RYLE

Conflict Temporary Trial Yourself

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