The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.
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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The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.
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No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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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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Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.
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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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Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.
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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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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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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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The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.
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If you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to him.
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God knew what we were before conversion – wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion – weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.
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The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.
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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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Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
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It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.
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HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.
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Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
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Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord…He waits quietly for the King.
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Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
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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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That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.
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The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.
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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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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.
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