Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
J. C. RYLEFear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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God does not look at riches, titles, education, or beauty. There is only one thing that God does look at, and that is the soul.
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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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However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
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Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.
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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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Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.
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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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Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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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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A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
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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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Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
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It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.
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I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.
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Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.
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