Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord…He waits quietly for the King.
J. C. RYLEWhy is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord…He waits quietly for the King.
J. C. RYLEFaith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.
J. C. RYLESin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
J. C. RYLEThe highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.
J. C. RYLEDo not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.
J. C. RYLEKnowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
J. C. RYLELet us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
J. C. RYLEThe love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
J. C. RYLEIf God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.
J. C. RYLESicknesses, 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. RYLETake away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
J. C. RYLEFaith 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. RYLEIf you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to him.
J. C. RYLEThere is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven – the crucified Son of God.
J. C. RYLELet us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray.
J. C. RYLELet 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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