Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.
J. C. RYLELook to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.
J. C. RYLENo one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
J. C. RYLENo time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
J. C. RYLEWe must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
J. C. RYLEThe true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.
J. C. RYLEAnd 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. RYLEThere will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.
J. C. RYLEIf you want to find out how much someone loves you, find out how much they pray for you.
J. C. RYLESince Satan can’t destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
J. C. RYLETrue 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.
J. C. RYLEThe blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must ‘plead guilty’ before God can declare us innocent.
J. C. RYLEWhy is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord…He waits quietly for the King.
J. C. RYLEMy 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.
J. C. RYLELet 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. RYLETake away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
J. C. RYLEPeople 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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