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Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.

J. C. Ryle

If you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to him.
J. C. RYLE

Himself Love Reason Yourself
Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
J. C. RYLE

Guilty Peace Portion Sacrifice Truth
The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.
J. C. RYLE

Intellectual Live Ourselves Scripture Tongue
I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.
J. C. RYLE

Dangerous Fear Forget Quite Religious
Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord…He waits quietly for the King.
J. C. RYLE

Believe Himself Patience Quiet Wait
However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
J. C. RYLE

Corruption Heart Live Ourselves Past
Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
J. C. RYLE

Beautiful Grace Humility Pride Rare Sin
If you want to find out how much someone loves you, find out how much they pray for you.
J. C. RYLE

Love Prayer Yourself
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.
J. C. RYLE

Give Up Hypocrisy Regret Repent Sin Sorry
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.
J. C. RYLE

Beginning Easy Heaven Himself Man Victory Win
The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.
J. C. RYLE

Alone Content Heaven Man Selfish
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. RYLE

Death Hate Play Sin
Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
J. C. RYLE

Identity Religious Shame Thinking
Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.
J. C. RYLE

Believe Evidence Ourselves Religious
If men come among you who do NOT preach all the counsel of God, who do NOT preach of Christ, sin, holiness, of ruin, redemption, and regeneration, and do NOT preach of these things in a Scriptural way, you ought to cease to hear them.
J. C. RYLE

God Holy Man Scripture Yourself
There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
J. C. RYLE

Account Action Consequence Forever

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