The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.
J. C. RYLEObedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord’s people.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.
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The Gospel which we possess was not given to us only to be admired, talked of, and professed – but to be practiced.
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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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We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.
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What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
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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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Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
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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.
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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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Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.
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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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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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The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.
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To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
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Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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