We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
J. C. RYLENothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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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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No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.
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Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
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No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.
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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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Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
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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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Tomorrow is the devil’s day, but today is God’s. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.
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To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.
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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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If men come among you who do NOT preach all the counsel of God, who do NOT preach of Christ, sin, holiness, of ruin, redemption, and regeneration, and do NOT preach of these things in a Scriptural way, you ought to cease to hear them.
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