Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps
J. C. RYLENothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps
J. C. RYLEIt is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.
J. C. RYLESicknesses, 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.
J. C. RYLEIt is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.
J. C. RYLENever let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
J. C. RYLESince Satan can’t destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
J. C. RYLEThe Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.
J. C. RYLEThere is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven – the crucified Son of God.
J. C. RYLEBacksliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
J. C. RYLEFear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
J. C. RYLEI maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.
J. C. RYLEThe only way to be really happy in such a world as this, is to be ever casting all our cares on God.
J. C. RYLEHATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.
J. C. RYLEFaith 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.
J. C. RYLELet us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
J. C. RYLEThe highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.
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