I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.
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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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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God does not look at riches, titles, education, or beauty. There is only one thing that God does look at, and that is the soul.
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There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven – the crucified Son of God.
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Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
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And I believe it to be a signal evidence of the Spirit’s presence when the Word is really precious to a man ‘s soul.
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Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.
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Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.
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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
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Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
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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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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.
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Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear… Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.
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Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.
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The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must ‘plead guilty’ before God can declare us innocent.
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