What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
J. C. RYLEFaith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?
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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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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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To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
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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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Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
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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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No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.
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And I believe it to be a signal evidence of the Spirit’s presence when the Word is really precious to a man ‘s soul.
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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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Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.
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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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