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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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Sunday morning, before we go to hear the Word of God preached...let us not rush into God's presence careless, reckless, and unprepared, as if it mattered not in what way such work was done. Let us carry with us faith, reverence, and prayer. If these three are our companions, we will hear with profit, and return with praise.
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Prayer is the surest remedy against the devil and besetting sins.
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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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We never know who they are that God will draw, and have nothing to do with it. Our duty is to invite all, and leave it to God to choose the vessels of mercy.
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Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray.
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We know nothing of humility by nature, for we are all born proud.
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Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord's people.
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We may love money without having it, just as we may have money without loving it.
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A right knowledge of sin lies at the root of all saving Christianity.
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Growth in grace is one way to be happy in our religion. God has wisely linked together our comfort and our increase in holiness.
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Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear... Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.
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Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins.
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The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.
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The cause of Christ does not need less working, but it does need among the workers, more praying.
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If Christ had not gone to the cross and suffered in our stead, the just for the unjust, there would not have been a spark of hope for us. There would have been a mighty gulf between ourselves and God, which no man ever could have passed.
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If you profess to be a child of God, leave it to the Lord Jesus to sanctify you in His own way.
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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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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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Millions of people profess and call themselves Christians, whom the Apostle Paul would not have called Christians at all.
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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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The harvest of the Lord's field is seldom ripened by sunshine only. It must go through its days of wind, rain and storm.
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Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord...He waits quietly for the King.
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The brightest saint is the man who has the most heart-searching sense of his own sinfulness, and the liveliest sense of his own complete acceptance in Christ.
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We want more men and women who walk with God and before God, like Enoch and Abraham.
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J. C. Ryle
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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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