What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
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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Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.
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God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.
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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 is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven – the crucified Son of God.
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Never be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!
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We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ’s steps, and let the world say what it likes.
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It was the whole Trinity, which at the beginning of creation said, “Let us make man”. It was the whole Trinity again, which at the beginning of the Gospel seemed to say, “Let us save man”.
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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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The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.
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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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Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord…He waits quietly for the King.
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Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.
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A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
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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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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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Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
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Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord’s people.
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HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.
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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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Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
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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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Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.
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I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.
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Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.
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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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