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My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.

J. C. Ryle

Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.
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Conflict Temporary Trial Yourself
God knew what we were before conversion – wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion – weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.
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Conversion God Guilty Himself Love Weakness
Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.
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Better God Judgement Man Time
That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.
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Defective Heaven Hell Joy Misery Sad Sadness
Let us resolve by God’s grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.
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God Grace Ourselves Poor Prayer
How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?
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Call Dedication Name Religious
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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Death God Kindness Life Ourselves Pain Son
If you want to find out how much someone loves you, find out how much they pray for you.
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Love Prayer Yourself
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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Anxiety Gold Humble Loss Sick
Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
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Live Thinking Time Yourself
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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Beautiful Education God Rich Soul
The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
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Greatness Ideas Service World
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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Care God Happiness World
There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven – the crucified Son of God.
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Bridge Earth God Heaven Son
The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.
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Deep Humility Secret Spiritual Strength True
There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.
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Appearance Peace Universe

My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.

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My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.

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