J. C. Ryle Quotes - Page 15

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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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• Another real danger to young men is thoughtlessness and lack of consideration. Lack of thought is one simple reason why thousands of souls are cast away forever. Men will not consider,-will not look forward,-will not look around them,-will not reflect on the end of their present course, and the sure consequences of their present ways,-and awake at last to find they are damned for lack of thinking.

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  Real, Simple, Men

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• Growth in grace is one way to be happy in our religion. God has wisely linked together our comfort and our increase in holiness.

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  Grace, Growth, Together

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.121, Letcetera Publishing

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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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• A zealous man feels that like a lamp he is made to burn; and if consumed in burning, he has but done the work for which God appointed him. Such a one will always find a sphere for his zeal. If he cannot preach and work and give money, he will cry and sigh and pray.

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  Men, Giving, Lamps

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• Infidelity and skepticism abound everywhere. In one form or another they are to be found in every rank and class of society. Thousands are not ashamed to say that they regard the Bible as an old obsolete Jewish book, which has no special claim on our faith and obedience, and that it contains many inaccuracies and defects. In a day like this, the true Christian should be able to set his foot down firmly, and to render a reason of his confidence in God's Word. He should be able by sound arguments to show good cause why he thinks the Bible is from heaven, and not of men.

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  Christian, Book, Men

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• If you would train your children rightly, train them in the way they should go and not in the way they would.

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  Christian, Children, Way

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “The Duties of Parents”, p.4, Booklassic

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• If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself.

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  Prayer, Church, Sin

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• When you cannot answer a skeptic, be content to wait for more light; but never forsake a great principle.

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  Light, Waiting, Principles

  J. C. Ryle (2007). “Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.368, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Follow Christ for His own sake, if you follow Him at all.

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  Sake, Christ, Ifs

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour.

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  Inspirational Life, Dying, Visitors

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.138, Letcetera Publishing

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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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• Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.

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  Prayer, Eye, Hands

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “The Duties of Parents”, p.14, Booklassic

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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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• For my own part, I believe that in dealing with skeptics, and unbelievers, and enemies of the Bible, Christians are too apt to stand only on the defensive. They are too often content with answering this or that little objection, or discussing this or that little difficulty, which is picked out of Scripture and thrown in their teeth. I believe we ought to act on the aggressive far more than we do, and to press home on the adversaries of [Biblical] inspiration the enormous difficulties of their own position.

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  Christian, Inspiration, Believe

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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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• We corrupt the Word of God most dangerously, when we throw any doubt on the plenary inspiration of any part of Holy Scripture.

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  Inspiration, Doubt, Scripture

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• There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the authentic reality that called itself Christianity in the beginning.

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  Reality, World, Sleepy

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

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  Heart, Men, Sacred Things

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

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• What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.

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  Character, Men, Heaven

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

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• All converted people should labor to adorn the doctrine they profess by humility. If they can do nothing else, they can strive to be humble.

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  Humble, Humility, People

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