J. C. Ryle Short Quotes

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

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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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If you and sin are friends, you and God are not yet reconciled.

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

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A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers.

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We know nothing of humility by nature, for we are all born proud.

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Prayer is the surest remedy against the devil and besetting sins.

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No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.

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

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There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.

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Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.

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A right knowledge of sin lies at the root of all saving Christianity.

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Am I honest? Am I sincere? Do I really desire first the praise of God?

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Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.

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The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.

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The devil has more knowledge than any of us, and yet is no better for it.

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

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Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God.

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How can we love sin, when we remember that because of our sins Jesus died?

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

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Where no visible fruit can be found, there you may be sure is no conversion.

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No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.

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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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Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.

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There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.

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The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell.

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One single soul saved shall outlive and outweigh all the kingdoms of the world.

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Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.

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Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.

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