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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• 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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• A tree may always be known by its fruit, and a true Christian may always be discovered by their habits, tastes & affections.

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  Christian, Tree, May

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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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• 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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• 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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• Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord's people.

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  Real, People, Acting

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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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• Men fall in private long before they fall in public.

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  Christian, Fall, Men

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.

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  Spiritual, Disappointment, Humble

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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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• 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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• 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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• It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.

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  Relatives And Friends, Impossible, Christ

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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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• Abide in Me says Jesus. Cling to Me. Stick fast to Me. Live the life of close and intimate communion with Me. Get nearer to Me. Roll every burden on Me. Cast your whole weight on Me. Never let go your hold on Me for a moment. Be, as it were, rooted and planted in Me. Do this and I will never fail you. I will ever abide in you.

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  Letting Go, Jesus, Live Life

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• Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.

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  Christ, Copies

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• The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.

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  Men, Heaven, Selfishness

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.145, Editora Dracaena

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• No one ever said at the end of his days; 'I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul'

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  Christian, Soul, Too Much

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