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. RYLETake away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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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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People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.
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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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A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
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Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
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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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Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.
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It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.
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Never be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!
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O Christian, look up and take comfort. Jesus has prepared a place for you, and those who follow Him shall never perish, neither shall anyone pluck them out of His hands.
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True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person – Jesus Christ.
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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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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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There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.
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The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.
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It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.
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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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However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
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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 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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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
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I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.
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Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
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Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
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Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.
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