J. C. Ryle Quotes

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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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Wrong views about holiness are generally traceable to wrong views about human corruption.

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When you cannot answer a skeptic, be content to wait for more light; but never forsake a great principle.

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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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Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.

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The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.

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But if there is one thing clearly and plainly laid down about election, it is this: that elect men and women may be known and distinguished by holy lives.

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Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.

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A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.

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Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.

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A deep sense of sin, a humble willingness to be saved in God's way, a teachable readiness to give up our own prejudices when a more excellent way is shown, these are the principal things. These things the two disciples possessed, and therefore our Lord "went with them" and guided them into all truth.

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The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed.

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True repentance is no light matter. It is a thorough change of heart about sin, a change showing itself in godly sorrow and humiliation - in heartfelt confession before the throne of grace - in a complete breaking off from sinful habits, and an abiding hatred of all sin. Such repentance is the inseparable companion of saving faith in Christ.

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No salvation without regeneration - no spiritual life without a new birth - no heaven without a new heart.

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Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.

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There is not enough Bible-reading among us. It is not sufficient to have the Book. We must actually READ it, and PRAY over it ourselves. It will do us no good, if it only lies still in our houses. We must be actually familiar with its contents, and have its texts stored in our memories and minds. Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive, wakeful reading.

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It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.

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Let us only take heed that this office of Christ is not set before us in vain. It will profit us nothing at the last day that Jesus was a Shepherd, if during our lifetime, we never heard His voice and followed Him. If we love life, let us join His flock without delay.

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If we would have good ministers, we must remember our Lord's example, and pray for them. Their work is heavy. Their responsibility is enormous. Their strength is small. Let us see that we support them, and hold up their hands by our prayers.

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Troublous times, departures from the faith, evil men waxing worse and worse, love waxing cold, are things distinctly predicted.

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He that has trained his children for heaven,
rather than for earth- for God rather than for man- he is the parent who will be called wise at the last.

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Without the blessing of the Lord, your best endeavors will do no good. He has the hearts of all men in His hands, and except He touch the hearts of your children by His Spirit, you will weary yourself to no purpose. Water, therefore, the seed you sow on their minds with unceasing prayer.

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Naked we came upon earth, and naked we go forth, and of all our possessions, we can carry nothing with us.

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The man who has nothing more than a kind of Sunday religion -- whose Christianity is like his Sunday clothes put on once a week, and then laid aside -- such a man cannot, of course, be expected to care about growth in grace.

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We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.

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The love of our Lord Jesus Christ towards sinners is strikingly shown in His steady purpose of heart to die for them.

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