Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.
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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There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
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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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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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Never be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!
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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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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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Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
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Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.
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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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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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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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I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.
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Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
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Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
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Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ’s followers get from the world.
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