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A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.
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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Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus.
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The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord's Supper.
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Inability to distinguish doctrine is spreading far and wide, and so long as the preacher is clever and earnest, hundreds seem to think it must be all right, and call you dreadfully narrow and uncharitable if you hint that he is unsound!
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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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Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
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We know nothing of humility by nature, for we are all born proud.
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The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.
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Let us watch against PRIDE in every shapepride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride in our own goodness.
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Since Satan can't destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
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Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
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The devil has more knowledge than any of us, and yet is no better for it.
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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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Wrong views about holiness are generally traceable to wrong views about human corruption.
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Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
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When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance.
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A zealous Savior ought to have zealous disciples.
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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
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A Bible reading laity is a nation's surest defence against error.
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What will it cost [a person] to be a true Christian? It will cost him his self-righteousn ess. He must cast away all pride and high thoughts, and conceit of his own goodness. He must be content to go to heaven as a poor sinner, saved only by free grace, and owing all to the merit and righteousness of another.
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