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.
J. C. RYLEThere will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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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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Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps
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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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No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord…He waits quietly for the King.
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Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.
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The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.
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Let 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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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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If 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.
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The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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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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I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.
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Faith 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.
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