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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
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There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.
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We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.
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True Christian is not an angel he is not a halfangelic being, in whom is no weakness, or blemish, or infirmity: he is nothing of the kind. He is nothing more than a sinner who has found out his sinfulness, and has learned the blessed secret of living by faith in Christ.
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Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren.
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There is but one fountain of comfort for a man drawing near to his end, and that is the Bible. ...All comfort from any other source is a house built upon sand.
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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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Election is always to sanctification. Where there is no visible fruit of sanctification, we may be sure there is no election.
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Wrong views about holiness are generally traceable to wrong views about human corruption.
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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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Nothing perhaps affects man's character more than the company he keeps
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God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.
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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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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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Follow Christ for His own sake, if you follow Him at all.
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To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.
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Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
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If you want to warm a church, put a stove in the pulpit.
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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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When I speak of a man growing in grace, I mean simply this - that his sense of sin is becoming deeper, his faith stronger, his hope brighter, his love more extensive, his spiritual mindedness more marked.
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Without the blessing of the Lord, your best endeavors will do no good. He has the hearts of all men in His hands, and except He touch the hearts of your children by His Spirit, you will weary yourself to no purpose. Water, therefore, the seed you sow on their minds with unceasing prayer.
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