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Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible-reading.

J. C. Ryle

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J. C. Ryle
Age: 84 †
Born: 1816
Born: May 10
Died: 1900
Died: June 10
Anglican Priest
Bishop Of Liverpool
Cricketer
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Macclesfield
Cheshire
J. C. Ryle
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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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Make it a part of every day's business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Private means of grace are just as needful every day for our souls as food and clothing are for our bodies.
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Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
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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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Churches may decay and perish riches may make themselves wings and fly away-but he who builds their happiness on Christ crucified and union with Him by faith, that person is standing on a foundation which shall never be moved, and will know something of true peace.
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There must not only be good preaching, but good hearing.
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We want more men and women who walk with God and before God, like Enoch and Abraham.
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We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.
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Parents, do you wish to see your children happy? Take care, then, that you train them to obey when they are spoken to, -to do as they are bid.... Teach them to obey while young, or else they will be fretting against God all their lives long, and wear themselves out with the vain idea of being independent of His control.
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Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
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Do something, by God’s help, to make heaven more full and hell more empty.
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Nothing perhaps affects man's character more than the company he keeps
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People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.
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Christ is never fully valued, until sin is clearly seen.
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However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
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We never know who they are that God will draw, and have nothing to do with it. Our duty is to invite all, and leave it to God to choose the vessels of mercy.
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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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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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The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
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Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors.
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