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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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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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I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at them till harvest, as expect a believer to attain much holiness who was not diligent about his Bible reading, his prayers, and the use of his Sundays.
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A Bible reading laity is a nation's surest defence against error.
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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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The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.
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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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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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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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The devil has more knowledge than any of us, and yet is no better for it.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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Do we profess to love Christ? Then let us show it by our lives.
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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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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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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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So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.
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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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There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.
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Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
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The only way to be really happy in such a world as this, is to be ever casting all our cares on God.
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If we would be sanctified, our course is clear and plain-we must begin with Christ. We must go to Him as sinners, with no plea but that of utter need, and cast our souls on Him by faith.... If we would grow in holiness and become more sanctified, we must continually go on as we began, and be ever making fresh applications to Christ.
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When I speak of a man growing in grace, I mean simply this - that his sense of sin is becoming deeper, his faith stronger, his hope brighter, his love more extensive, his spiritual mindedness more marked.
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In Christ alone God's rich provision of salvation for sinners is treasured up: by Christ alone God's abundant mercies come down from heaven to earth. Christ's blood alone can cleanse us; Christ's righteousness alone can cleanse us; Christ's merit alone can give us a title to heaven. Jews and Gentiles, learned and unlearned, kings and poor men--all alike must either be saved by the Lord Jesus, or lost forever.
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However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
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I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Jack Kerouac
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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