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.
J. C. RYLEIf God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.
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The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.
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No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.
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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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Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.
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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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Let 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.
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We know but little of true Christianity, if we don’t feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
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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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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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Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
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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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