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.
J. C. RYLEMen fall in private long before they fall in public.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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The eye of God! Think of that. Everywhere, in every house, in every field, in every room, in every company, alone or in a crowd, the eye of God is always upon you.
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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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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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Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
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If you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to him.
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The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.
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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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Never be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!
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Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
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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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Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ’s followers get from the world.
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Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
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The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
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Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
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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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