J. C. Ryle Quotes

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Examine your own hearts. Do you see there any habit or custom which you know is wrong in the sight of God? If you do, don't delay for a moment in attacking it. Resolve at once to lay it aside. Nothing darkens the eyes of the mind so much, and deadens the conscience so surely, as an allowed sin. It may be a little one, but it is not any less dangerous.

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Heart, Eye, Sight

"Thoughts for Young Men". Book by J. C. Ryle, June, 2002.

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

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Teacher, Firsts, Neglect

J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew”, p.60, Editora Dracaena

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A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.

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Christian, Religion, Deep Thought

J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.106, Letcetera Publishing

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To be born again is, as it were, to enter upon a new existence, to have a new mind, a new heart, new views, new principles, new tastes, new affections, new likings, new dislikings, new fears, new joys, new sorrows, new love to things once hated, new hatred to things once loved, new thoughts of God, and ourselves, and the world, and the life to come, and salvation.

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Heart, Views, Hatred

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Walk more closely with God. Get nearer to Christ. Seek to exchange hope for assurance. Seek to feel the witness of the Spirit more closely and distinctly every year. Lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily threatens you. Press towards the mark more earnestly. Fight a better fight, and war a better warfare every year you live. Pray more. Read more. Subdue self more. Love the brethren more. Oh that you may endeavor to grow in grace every year, that the end of your Christian course may be better than the beginning!

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Christian, War, Fighting

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Let us be real, honest, and sincere in our Christianity. We cannot deceive an all-seeing God.

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Real, Honest, Christianity

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Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are, and whom you serve.

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Heart, Eye, Doubt

J.C. Ryle (2015). “Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity”, p.104, Ravenio Books

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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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Born: May 10, 1816
Died: June 10, 1900
Occupation: Bishop of Liverpool
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