Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
J. C. RYLETo say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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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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We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.
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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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Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
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Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
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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.
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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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A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
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Never be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!
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Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
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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.
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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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There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
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How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?
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Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray.
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