Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
J. C. RYLEBeware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.
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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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Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
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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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No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must ‘plead guilty’ before God can declare us innocent.
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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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Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
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Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
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The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.
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Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
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We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.
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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.
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A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
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