The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.
J. C. RYLE
J. C. RYLE
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Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle 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.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle 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.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle We know but little of true Christianity, if we don’t feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer… He may sometimes keep us long waiting…but He will never send us empty away.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle 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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