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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.

J. C. Ryle

Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.
J. C. RYLE

Eyes Happiness Heart Poor Prayer Right Weakness
Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.
J. C. RYLE

Determination Diligent Honesty Ourselves Practice Reading
Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.
J. C. RYLE

Book Care Friendship God Minister Word
Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.
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Blind God Misery Naked Nature Sight Simplicity
Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
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Fear Language Poor Prayer Understand Word Yourself
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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Change End Friendship Himself Love
Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
J. C. RYLE

Friendship Ourselves Prayer Seek
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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Care Day End God Myself Reading Soul Thinking
Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.
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Alone Children Leaving Mistake Small Training
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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Doubt Eyes Heart Mistake Religious Walk Yourself
Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
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Beware Evidence Repent
Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
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Guilty Peace Portion Sacrifice Truth
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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Cheap Cost End Evidence Religious Worth
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
J. C. RYLE

Live Place Prayer Sin Togetherness
Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.
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Hell Unity Worth
The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.
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Alone Content Heaven Man Selfish

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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