Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
J. C. RYLENever does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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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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Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
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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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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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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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Tomorrow is the devil’s day, but today is God’s. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.
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The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.
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God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.
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Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are, and whom you serve.
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The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
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God does not look at riches, titles, education, or beauty. There is only one thing that God does look at, and that is the soul.
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Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
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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.
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Let us resolve by God’s grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.
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The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
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