The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must ‘plead guilty’ before God can declare us innocent.
J. C. RYLELet it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
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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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However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
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It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.
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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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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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If you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to him.
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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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There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
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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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There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven – the crucified Son of God.
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Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.
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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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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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Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.
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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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Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.
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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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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.
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The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.
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Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.
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Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.
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The Lord Jesus is “a friend who never changes.” There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.
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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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Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
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A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
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