J. C. Ryle Quotes

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Let us read the Bible reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in it.

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The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all are sinners, who need a Savior: holy, useful, honorable in their place - but sinners after all.

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I must honestly declare my conviction that, since the days of the Reformation, there never has been so much profession of religion without practice, so much talking about God without walking with Him, so much hearing God's words without doing them...

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Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to preach the Gospel.

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Do something, by God's help, to make heaven more full and hell more empty.

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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 heart that has really tasted the grace of Christ, will instinctively hate sin.

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

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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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Wealth is no mark of God's favor. Poverty is no mark of God's displeasure.

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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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There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven - the crucified Son of God.

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Do you wish to grow in grace and be a holy Christian? Then never forget the value of prayer.

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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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Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness.

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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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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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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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