O Christian, look up and take comfort. Jesus has prepared a place for you, and those who follow Him shall never perish, neither shall anyone pluck them out of His hands.
J. C. RYLEThe nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
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Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.
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Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are, and whom you serve.
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Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
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Tomorrow is the devil’s day, but today is God’s. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.
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No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.
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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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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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The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.
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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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Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.
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Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear… Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.
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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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Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
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