We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
J. C. RYLELet 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.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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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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God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.
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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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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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God knew what we were before conversion – wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion – weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.
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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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We know but little of true Christianity, if we don’t feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
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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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If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.
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Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord…He waits quietly for the King.
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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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Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ’s followers get from the world.
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Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
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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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Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.
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