We know but little of true Christianity, if we don’t feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
J. C. RYLELet us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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The only way to be really happy in such a world as this, is to be ever casting all our cares on God.
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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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Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ’s followers get from the world.
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Never be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!
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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.
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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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It was the whole Trinity, which at the beginning of creation said, “Let us make man”. It was the whole Trinity again, which at the beginning of the Gospel seemed to say, “Let us save man”.
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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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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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Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer… He may sometimes keep us long waiting…but He will never send us empty away.
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Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.
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Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
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If you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to him.
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My 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.
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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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