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Such true worship will stand the test of Christ's great principle, “By their fruits you shall know them”. It sanctifies the Christian's life, and makes them walk with God, lifting them above fear and love of the world. It enables a Christian to show God to other folks. Such worship comes from heaven, and has the mark of God upon it.

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Christian, Heaven, And Love

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What will it cost [a person] to be a true Christian? It will cost him his self-righteousn ess. He must cast away all pride and high thoughts, and conceit of his own goodness. He must be content to go to heaven as a poor sinner, saved only by free grace, and owing all to the merit and righteousness of another.

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Christian, Pride, Self

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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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Character, Men, Errors

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But if there is one thing clearly and plainly laid down about election, it is this: that elect men and women may be known and distinguished by holy lives.

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Men, May, Election

J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.42, Letcetera Publishing

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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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Christian, Men, Useless

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Humility and love are precisely the graces which the men of the world can understand, if they do not comprehend doctrines. They are the graces about which there is no mystery, and they are within reach of all classes... The poorest Christian can every day find occasion for practicing love and humility.

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Christian, Humility, Men

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It is easy to criticize and find fault with the conduct of kings, and write furious articles against them in newspapers, or make violent speeches about them on platforms. Any fool can rip and rend a costly garment, but not every man can cut out and make one. To expect perfection in kings, prime ministers, or rulers of any king, is senseless and unreasonable. We would exhibit more wisdom if we prayed for them more, and criticized less.

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Kings, Rip, Writing

J.C. Ryle (2015). “The Upper Room: Biblical Truths For Modern Times”, p.309, Whitaker House

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On the one hand stand salvation by free grace for Christ's sake; but on the other stands renewal of the carnal heart by the Spirit. We must be changed as well as forgiven; we must be renewed as well as redeemed.

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Heart, Hands, Grace

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Assurance of hope is more than life, it is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty.

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Energy, Vigor, Assurance

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

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Desire, Firsts, Honest

J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.90, Editora Dracaena

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The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all are sinners, who need a Savior: holy, useful, honorable in their place - but sinners after all.

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Father, Men, Needs

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Sin rarely seems sin at first beginnings.

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Firsts, Sin, Seems

J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.28, Letcetera Publishing

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When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance.

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Jesus, Men, Giving

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Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without prayer; friendships formed without prayer; the daily act of prayer itself hurried over, or gone through without heart: these are the kind of downward steps by which many a Christian descends to a condition of spiritual palsy, or reaches the point where God allows them to have a tremendous fall.

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Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

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

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The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and...one moment after God commands them to stop.

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Hands, Wicked, Moments

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Many, I fear, would like glory, who have no wish for grace. They would [want to] have the wages, but not the work; the harvest, but not the labor; the reaping, but not the sowing; the reward, but not the battle. But it may not be.

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Grace, Battle, Wish

J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.194, Letcetera Publishing

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Let us only take heed that this office of Christ is not set before us in vain. It will profit us nothing at the last day that Jesus was a Shepherd, if during our lifetime, we never heard His voice and followed Him. If we love life, let us join His flock without delay.

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Jesus, Love Life, Voice

J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.178, Editora Dracaena

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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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Men, Fruit, Shows

J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.69, Letcetera Publishing

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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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Happiness, Men, Long

J.C. Ryle (2015). “Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity”, p.297, Ravenio Books

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Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world- one is a young man that is humble, and the other is an old man that is content. I fear that this is only too true.

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Humble, Pride, Men

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The brightest saint is the man who has the most heart-searching sense of his own sinfulness, and the liveliest sense of his own complete acceptance in Christ.

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Heart, Acceptance, Men

J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.461, Editora Dracaena

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We ought to regard the sacrament of baptism with reverence. An ordinance of which the Lord Jesus Himself partook, is not to be lightly esteemed. An ordinance to which the great Head of the Church submitted, ought to be ever honorable in the eyes of professing Christians.

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Christian, Jesus, Eye

J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew”, p.19, Editora Dracaena

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He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never let it be said that any perished at the foot of the cross.

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Godly, Feet, Smoking

J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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The doctrine of Christ crucified is the strength of a Minister. I, for one, would not be without it for all the world.

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Doctrine, World, Christ

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Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst.

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Book, Scripture, Proportion

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