The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.
J. C. RYLEThe Lord Jesus is “a friend who never changes.” There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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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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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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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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Never be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!
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If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.
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Since Satan can’t destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
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The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.
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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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Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
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Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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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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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.
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We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
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Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.
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