HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.
J. C. RYLEOur 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.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
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Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.
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Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ’s followers get from the world.
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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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Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
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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.
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To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.
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Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
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Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.
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Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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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.
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Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.
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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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Since Satan can’t destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
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