The Lord Jesus is “a friend who never changes.” There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.
J. C. RYLEA Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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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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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.
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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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The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must ‘plead guilty’ before God can declare us innocent.
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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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We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.
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Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.
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Let us resolve by God’s grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.
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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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However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
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There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
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No one ever said at the end of his days; ‘I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul’
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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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Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
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According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.
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