Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.
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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We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
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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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The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.
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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.
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We know but little of true Christianity, if we don’t feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
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God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.
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The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.
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The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.
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Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
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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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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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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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Never be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!
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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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HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.
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