The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must ‘plead guilty’ before God can declare us innocent.
J. C. RYLENever let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
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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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The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.
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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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Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
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Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
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To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.
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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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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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Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
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I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.
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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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Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.
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Since Satan can’t destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
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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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