Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ’s followers get from the world.
J. C. RYLETrials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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We know but little of true Christianity, if we don’t feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
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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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I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.
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If men come among you who do NOT preach all the counsel of God, who do NOT preach of Christ, sin, holiness, of ruin, redemption, and regeneration, and do NOT preach of these things in a Scriptural way, you ought to cease to hear them.
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People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.
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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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Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.
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We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ’s steps, and let the world say what it likes.
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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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Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
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Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.
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We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
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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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Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
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It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.
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