The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.
J. C. RYLEOur 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.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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The Lord Jesus is “a friend who never changes.” There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.
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Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
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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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Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.
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Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
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According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.
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Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.
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God knew what we were before conversion – wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion – weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.
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If you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to him.
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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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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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Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.
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If you want to find out how much someone loves you, find out how much they pray for you.
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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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We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.
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The eye of God! Think of that. Everywhere, in every house, in every field, in every room, in every company, alone or in a crowd, the eye of God is always upon you.
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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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It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.
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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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It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.
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True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person – Jesus Christ.
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The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.
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Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
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No one ever said at the end of his days; ‘I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul’
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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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