J. C. Ryle Quotes
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Tomorrow is the devil's day, but today is God's. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.
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Let us be real, honest, and sincere in our Christianity. We cannot deceive an all-seeing God.
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If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His existence in history they cannot deny. How is it that without force or bribery, without arms or money, He has made such an immensely deep mark on the world as He certainly has?
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The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known.
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Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors.
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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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Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible-reading.
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Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God.
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If you and sin are friends, you and God are not yet reconciled.
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We live in an age when there is a false glare on the things of time and a great mist over the things of eternity.
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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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The person that goes regularly and intelligently to the Lord's Table finds it increasingly hard to yield to sin and conform to the world.
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Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness.
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Millions of people profess and call themselves Christians, whom the Apostle Paul would not have called Christians at all.
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In Christ alone God’s rich provision of salvation for sinners is treasured up: by Christ alone God’s abundant mercies come down from heaven to earth. Christ’s blood alone can cleanse us; Christ’s righteousness alone can cleanse us; Christ’s merit alone can give us a title to heaven. Jews and Gentiles, learned and unlearned, kings and poor men--all alike must either be saved by the Lord Jesus, or lost forever.
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Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.
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What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.
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There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.
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Such true worship will stand the test of Christ's great principle, “By their fruits you shall know them”. It sanctifies the Christian's life, and makes them walk with God, lifting them above fear and love of the world. It enables a Christian to show God to other folks. Such worship comes from heaven, and has the mark of God upon it.
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Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.
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The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.
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A man may commit sin and yet be ignorant of it, and fancy himself innocent when he is guilty... We shall do well to remember that when we make our own miserably imperfect knowledge and consciousness the measure of our sinfulness, we are on very dangerous ground.
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Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren.
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He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never let it be said that any perished at the foot of the cross.
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According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.
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We are evidently no friends of Satan. Like the kings of this world, he wars not against his own subjects. The very fact that he assaults us should fill our minds with hope.
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A right heart leans on Christ, hangs on Christ, builds on Christ and cleaves to Christ.
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Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.
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A sin...consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God
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The best of men are men at best
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