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.
J. C. RYLETomorrow 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.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.
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There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven – the crucified Son of God.
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Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.
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The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.
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The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.
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Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
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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 must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.
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We know but little of true Christianity, if we don’t feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
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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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No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
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That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.
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Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.
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