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To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.

J. C. Ryle

Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.
J. C. RYLE

Book Care Friendship God Minister Word
Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren.
J. C. RYLE

Education Family God Himself Learning Student Weakness
If you want to find out how much someone loves you, find out how much they pray for you.
J. C. RYLE

Love Prayer Yourself
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.
J. C. RYLE

Alone Company Eyes God Home Room Yourself
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
I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.
J. C. RYLE

Born Care Dangerous Live Myself Person
The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.
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Deep Humility Secret Spiritual Strength True
The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must ‘plead guilty’ before God can declare us innocent.
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Blood Declare God Innocence Sin
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. RYLE

Drive Ourselves Religion Thinking Trial World
No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
J. C. RYLE

Day Ourselves Time
Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
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Book Darkness God Religious
Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord’s people.
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Act Disciple Faith Obedience People Reality Visible
The Lord Jesus is “a friend who never changes.” There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.
J. C. RYLE

Change End Friendship Himself Love
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
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
Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear… Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.
J. C. RYLE

Children Father Forget Imitation Mindset Mom Principle Strong

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