Since Satan can’t destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
J. C. RYLEWhat is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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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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Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.
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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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It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.
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No one ever said at the end of his days; ‘I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul’
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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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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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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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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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The eye of God! Think of that. Everywhere, in every house, in every field, in every room, in every company, alone or in a crowd, the eye of God is always upon you.
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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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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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No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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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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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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