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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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It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.
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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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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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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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Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.
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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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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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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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Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.
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If you and sin are friends, you and God are not yet reconciled.
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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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There is more to be learned at the foot of the Cross than anywhere else in the world.
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We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.
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Christ's death is the Christian's life. Christ's cross is the Christian's title to heaven. Christ "lifted up" and put to shame on Calvary is the ladder by which Christians "enter into the holiest," and are at length landed in glory.
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Prosperity is a great mercy, but adversity is a greater one, if it brings us to Christ.
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There are few professing Christians, it may be feared, who strive to imitate Christ in the matter of private devotion. There is abundance of hearing, reading, talking, professing, visiting, contributing to the poor and teaching at schools. But is there, together with all this, a due proportion of private prayer? Are believing men and women sufficiently careful to be frequently alone with God?
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It was the whole Trinity, which at the beginning of creation said, "Let us make man". It was the whole Trinity again, which at the beginning of the Gospel seemed to say, "Let us save man".
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It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.
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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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Let us watch against pride in every shape-pride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride of our own goodness.
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The very sermon that we needlessly miss, may contain a precious word in season for our souls.
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Born:
May 10, 1816
Died:
June 10, 1900
(aged 84)
Bio:
John Charles Ryle was the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool.
Known for:
A Call to Prayer (1850)
Five English Reformers
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