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If you want to warm a church, put a stove in the pulpit.

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
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Sunday morning, before we go to hear the Word of God preached...let us not rush into God’s presence careless, reckless, and unprepared, as if it mattered not in what way such work was done. Let us carry with us faith, reverence, and prayer. If these three are our companions, we will hear with profit, and return with praise.
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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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The person that goes regularly and intelligently to the Lord's Table finds it increasingly hard to yield to sin and conform to the world.
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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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A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
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No salvation without regeneration - no spiritual life without a new birth - no heaven without a new heart.
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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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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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The surest mark of true conversion is humility.
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Sin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission.
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How can we love sin, when we remember that because of our sins Jesus died?
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True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience.
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Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.
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One single soul saved shall outlive and outweigh all the kingdoms of the world.
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No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.
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Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
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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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Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.
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Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.
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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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