Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.
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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However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
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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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Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
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There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
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Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
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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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We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
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The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.
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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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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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Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
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The Lord Jesus is “a friend who never changes.” There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.
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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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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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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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