Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
J. C. RYLELet us beware of repentance without evidence.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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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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God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.
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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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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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Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.
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What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
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To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
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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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Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
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The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.
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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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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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A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
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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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