J. C. Ryle - Bible Quotes

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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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Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.

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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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A Bible reading laity is a nation's surest defence against error.

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

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

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The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.

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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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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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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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According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.

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Be very sure of this,-people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it only too well; they understand that it condemns their own behavior; they understand that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to judgment.

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Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.

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The Bible applied to the heart by the Holy Ghost is the chief means by which men are built up and established in the faith, after their conversion. It is able to cleanse them, to sanctify them, to instruct them in righteousness, and to furnish them thoroughly for all good works.

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Those who confine God's love exclusively to the elect appear to me to take a narrow and contracted view of God's character and attributes....I have long come to the conclusion that men may be
more systematic in their statements than the Bible, and may be led into grave error by idolatrous veneration of a system

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