I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.
J. C. RYLELet us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
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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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The only way to be really happy in such a world as this, is to be ever casting all our cares on God.
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Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
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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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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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Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are, and whom you serve.
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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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The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
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Our 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.
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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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Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
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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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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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However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
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