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.
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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Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
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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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God does not look at riches, titles, education, or beauty. There is only one thing that God does look at, and that is the soul.
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No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.
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No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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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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Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
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According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.
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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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There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.
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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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Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
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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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Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.
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