J. C. Ryle Quotes

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• It costs something to be a real Christian, according to the standard of the Bible. There are enemies to be overcome, battles to be fought, sacrifices to be made, an Egypt to be forsaken, a wilderness to be passed through, a cross to be carried, a race to be run. Conversion is not putting a person in an arm-chair and taking them easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.

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  Christian, Running, Real

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• We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ's steps, and let the world say what it likes.

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  Giving Up, Ideas, Trying

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.132, Editora Dracaena

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• Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not holy; a God who as a heaven for every body, but a hell for none; a God who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and broad in eternity. Such a God is an idol of your own, as truly an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him. He is not the God of the Bible, and beside the God of the Bible there is no God at all.

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  Hands, Idols, Snakes

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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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  Thinking, Trials, World

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• Do nothing that you would not like God to see. Say nothing you would not like God to hear. Write nothing you would not like God to read. Go no place where you would not like God to find you. Read no book of which you would not like God to say, "Show it to Me." Never spend your time in such a way that you would not like to have God say, "What are you doing?

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  Book, Writing, Way

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• If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.

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  Speak, Christ, Ashamed

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.326, Letcetera Publishing

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• Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray.

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  Heart, Devil, Watches

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew”, p.154, Editora Dracaena

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• Read the Bible daily. Make it part of your everyday business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Gather your manna fresh every morning. Choose your own seasons and hours. Do not scramble over and hurry your reading. Give your Bible the best, and not the worst, part of your time. But whatever plan you pursue, let it be a rule of your life to visit the throne of grace and the Bible every day.

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  Morning, Reading, Giving

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• If you want to find out how much someone loves you, find out how much they pray for you.

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  Love You, Want, Praying

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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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  Christian, Men, Wish

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew”, p.303, Editora Dracaena

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• A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.

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  Christian, Long, Doe

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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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  Eye, Thinking, House

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• Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.

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  Heart, Doe, States

  J.C Ryle, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “PRACTICAL RELIGION”, Lulu.com

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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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  Son, Doors, Bridges

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• If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange thing, if we have to endure sicknesses, losses, bereavements, and disappointments, just like other men. Free pardon and full forgiveness, grace along the way, and glory at the endall this our Savior has promised to give. But He has never promised that we shall have no afflictions.

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  Forgiveness, God, Christian

  "Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Mark".

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• Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.

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  Prayer, Heart, Eye

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• God knew what we were before conversion - wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion - weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.

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  Wicked, Erring, Guilty

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• Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren.

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  Christian, Children, School

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.356, Editora Dracaena

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• The heart of a man can never be satisfied with the things of this world. It is always empty, and hungry, and thirsty, and dissatisfied, till it comes to Christ. It is only they who hear Christ's voice, and follow Him, and feed on Him by faith, who are 'filled.'.

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  Heart, Men, Voice

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.170, Editora Dracaena

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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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  Forget, Danger, One Thing

  Jay Patrick Green, Sr., John Charles Ryle (2002). “Why Read the Bible Through & How Readest Thou?”, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• God does not look at riches, titles, education, or beauty. There is only one thing that God does look at, and that is the soul.

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  Soul, Titles, Doe

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• Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.

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  Book, Ministers, Careful

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• Wherever we may be, or whatever our circumstances, the Lord Jesus sees them. We are never beyond the reach of His care.

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  Jesus, Care, May

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• The Gospel which we possess was not given to us only to be admired, talked of, and professed - but to be practiced.

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  Given

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• Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.

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  Feelings, Christ, Glory

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.243, Letcetera Publishing

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