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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’

J. C. Ryle

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’
J. C. RYLE

Care Day End God Myself Reading Soul Thinking
Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
J. C. RYLE

Conscience Evil Fear Heart Ourselves
Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.
J. C. RYLE

Affection God Meditation Thinking World Yourself
Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
J. C. RYLE

Identity Religious Shame Thinking
The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.
J. C. RYLE

Alone Content Heaven Man Selfish
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.
J. C. RYLE

Believe Communication God Live Person Proposition True
Wherever we may be, or whatever our circumstances, the Lord Jesus sees them. We are never beyond the reach of His care.
J. C. RYLE

Care Circumstance God Himself Reach See
Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.
J. C. RYLE

Hell Unity 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
The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.
J. C. RYLE

Happiness Himself Save Scripture True
Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
J. C. RYLE

Live Religious Scripture
A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
J. C. RYLE

Lecture Minister Time Walk
The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
J. C. RYLE

Greatness Ideas Service World
We know but little of true Christianity, if we don’t feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
J. C. RYLE

Feeling People Religion Soul True
We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
J. C. RYLE

Hide Man Reading Treasure
Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
J. C. RYLE

Fall Man Privacy

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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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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