According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.
J. C. RYLELet us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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Let us resolve by God’s grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.
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If men come among you who do NOT preach all the counsel of God, who do NOT preach of Christ, sin, holiness, of ruin, redemption, and regeneration, and do NOT preach of these things in a Scriptural way, you ought to cease to hear them.
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Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.
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The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
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Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
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Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.
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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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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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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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Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.
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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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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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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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