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Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord…He waits quietly for the King.

J. 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. RYLE

Feeling People Religion Soul True
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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Better Expectation God Representation World
Never be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!
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Religion Satisfaction Standard World
Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps
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Affect Character Company Himself Man
The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
J. C. RYLE

Greatness Ideas Service World
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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Desire Earth Eyes Glory God Myself People Writing
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
Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.
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Faith God Heart Medicine Religious Trouble
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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Beginning Easy Heaven Himself Man Victory Win
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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Dangerous Fear Forget Quite Religious
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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Bad Beware Book Reading Yourself
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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Accounts Discover Fall In Love People Private
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
Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
J. C. RYLE

Body Love Yourself
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.
J. C. RYLE

Believe Body Faith Life Person Prayer Soul
Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
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Beginning Book Heart Learning Need Prayer Willing Wisdom

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