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Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.

J. C. Ryle

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J. C. Ryle
Age: 84 †
Born: 1816
Born: May 10
Died: 1900
Died: June 10
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Bishop Of Liverpool
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Macclesfield
Cheshire
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Until we give God our heart, we give Him nothing at all.
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We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.
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My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.
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I am one of those old-fashioned ministers who believe the whole Bible and everything that it contains.
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If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.
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That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.
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A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.
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The Lord Jesus is a friend who never changes. There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.
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I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at them till harvest, as expect a believer to attain much holiness who was not diligent about his Bible reading, his prayers, and the use of his Sundays.
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The faith that has not a sanctifying influence on the character is no better than the faith of devils.
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The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.
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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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Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.
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