Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus.
J. C. RYLESince Satan can’t destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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If you want to find out how much someone loves you, find out how much they pray for you.
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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 in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.
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Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ’s followers get from the world.
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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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There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.
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We know but little of true Christianity, if we don’t feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
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Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.
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It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.
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Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
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Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren.
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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.
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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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The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
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Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
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