Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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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Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.
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Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray.
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Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus.
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The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.
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Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
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Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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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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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ’s followers get from the world.
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Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer… He may sometimes keep us long waiting…but He will never send us empty away.
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Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
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There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.
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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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Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.
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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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