J. C. Ryle Quotes

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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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So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.

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The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.

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There is but one fountain of comfort for a man drawing near to his end, and that is the Bible....All comfort from any other source is a house built upon sand.

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True faith will always show itself by its fruits... I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.

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Do we profess to love Christ? Then let us show it by our lives.

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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.

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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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Let us awake to a sense of the perilous state of many professing Christians. 'Without holiness no man shall see the Lord'; without sanctification there is no salvation (Hebrews 12:14). Then what an enormous amount of so-called religion there is which is perfectly useless!

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We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God and seek salvation, unless He first called us by His grace. Without a divine call, no one can be saved.

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The faith that has not a sanctifying influence on the character is no better than the faith of devils.

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The devil has more knowledge than any of us, and yet is no better for it.

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There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the authentic reality that called itself Christianity in the beginning.

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Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's book; I call upon you not to forget the book of the soul. Do not let newspapers, novels, and romances be read, while the prophets and Apostles be despised. Do not let the exciting and sensual swallow up your attention, while the edifying and the sanctifying can find no place in your mind.

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If we would know whether our faith is genuine, we do well to ask ourselves how we are living.

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The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.

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Conduct is the grand test of character. Words are one great evidence of the condition of the heart.

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A Bible reading laity is a nation's surest defence against error.

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Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished.

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There is more to be learned at the foot of the Cross than anywhere else in the world.

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All the simplicity in the world can do no good, unless you preach the simple gospel of Jesus Christ so fully and clearly that everybody can understand it. If 'Christ crucified' has not His rightful place in your sermons, and sin is not exposed as it should be, and your people are not plainly told what they ought to believe, and be, and do - your preaching is of no use!

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If you and sin are friends, you and God are not yet reconciled.

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Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.

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The standard of the world, and the standard of the Lord Jesus, are indeed widely different. They are more than different. They are flatly contradictory one to the other.

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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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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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How can we love sin, when we remember that because of our sins Jesus died?

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Where no visible fruit can be found, there you may be sure is no conversion.

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It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.

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It is not always those who have the most eminent gifts who are the most successful laborers for God. It is generally those who keep up closest communion with Christ and are most constant in prayer.

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