Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.
J. C. RYLEGod is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
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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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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.
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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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Let us resolve by God’s grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.
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Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
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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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Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
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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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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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Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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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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We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ’s steps, and let the world say what it likes.
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Never be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!
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