No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
J. C. RYLEThe parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.
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There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
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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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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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Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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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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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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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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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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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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We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.
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And I believe it to be a signal evidence of the Spirit’s presence when the Word is really precious to a man ‘s soul.
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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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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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