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Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.

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
Writer
Macclesfield
Cheshire
J. C. Ryle
John Ryle
John C. Ryle
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Nothing
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Heart
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The devil has more knowledge than any of us, and yet is no better for it.
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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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According to the men of the world, few are going to hell According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.
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There must not only be good preaching, but good hearing.
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Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.
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Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are, and whom you serve.
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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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The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.
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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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A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour.
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Wherever we may be, or whatever our circumstances, the Lord Jesus sees them. We are never beyond the reach of His care.
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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.
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There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.
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Prayer is the mightiest weapon that God has placed in our hands.
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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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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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If Christ had not gone to the cross and suffered in our stead, the just for the unjust, there would not have been a spark of hope for us. There would have been a mighty gulf between ourselves and God, which no man ever could have passed.
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The eye of God! Think of that. Everywhere, in every house, in every field, in every room, in every company, alone or in a crowd, the eye of God is always upon you.
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I want people to fill their minds with passages of Scripture while they are well and strong, that they may have sure help in the day of need. I want them to be diligent in studying their Bibles, and becoming familiar with its contents, in order that the grand old Book may stand by them and talk with them when all earthly friends fail.
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The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
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