We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
J. C. RYLEPraying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.
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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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Tomorrow is the devil’s day, but today is God’s. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.
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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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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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If you want to find out how much someone loves you, find out how much they pray for you.
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Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer… He may sometimes keep us long waiting…but He will never send us empty away.
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Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.
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Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps
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There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.
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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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Wherever we may be, or whatever our circumstances, the Lord Jesus sees them. We are never beyond the reach of His care.
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Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
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Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.
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The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.
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