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.
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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Never be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!
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Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.
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If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for 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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Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.
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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.
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The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.
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Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps
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And I believe it to be a signal evidence of the Spirit’s presence when the Word is really precious to a man ‘s soul.
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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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Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.
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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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Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
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