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Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.

J. C. Ryle

Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.
J. C. RYLE

God Idol Manufacture Mercy Yourself
Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus.
J. C. RYLE

Evil God Talk Tempt Yourself
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.
J. C. RYLE

Act Disciple Faith Obedience People Reality Visible
We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.
J. C. RYLE

God Himself Respect Worth
Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
J. C. RYLE

Identity Religious Shame Thinking
Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord…He waits quietly for the King.
J. C. RYLE

Believe Himself Patience Quiet Wait
Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.
J. C. RYLE

Blind God Misery Naked Nature Sight Simplicity
The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.
J. C. RYLE

Build Goodness Oneself Parents Training
Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.
J. C. RYLE

Eyes Happiness Heart Poor Prayer Right Weakness
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.
J. C. RYLE

Anxiety Gold Humble Loss Sick
That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.
J. C. RYLE

Defective Heaven Hell Joy Misery Sad Sadness
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.
J. C. RYLE

Education Family God Himself Learning Student Weakness
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.
J. C. RYLE

Doubt Eyes Heart Mistake Religious Walk Yourself
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.
J. C. RYLE

Believe Evidence Man Myself Soul Spirit
We know but little of true Christianity, if we don’t feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
J. C. RYLE

Feeling People Religion Soul True
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.
J. C. RYLE

Confession God Heart Himself Live Love

Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.

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