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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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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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Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.
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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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Nothing perhaps affects man's character more than the company he keeps
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We know nothing of humility by nature, for we are all born proud.
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The temple in which the Lord Jesus delights most, is a broken and contrite heart, renewed by the Holy Spirit.
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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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Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
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Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.
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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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The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.
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Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.
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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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Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
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Let us awake to a sense of the perilous state of many professing Christians. 'Without holiness no man shall see the Lord' without sanctification there is no salvation (Hebrews 12:14). Then what an enormous amount of so-called religion there is which is perfectly useless!
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There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.
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Do something, by God’s help, to make heaven more full and hell more empty.
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We may love money without having it, just as we may have money without loving it.
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We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.
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The Lord Jesus is a friend who never changes. There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.
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