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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
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Bishop Of Liverpool
Cricketer
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Macclesfield
Cheshire
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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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There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.
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The true Christian does not need to be reminded that he has a crucified Master. He often thinks of Him.
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We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ's steps, and let the world say what it likes.
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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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People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.
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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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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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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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Those who confine God's love exclusively to the elect appear to me to take a narrow and contracted view of God's character and attributes....I have long come to the conclusion that men may be more systematic in their statements than the Bible, and may be led into grave error by idolatrous veneration of a system
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The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
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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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Let us learn to be patient in the days of darkness, if we know anything of vital union with Christ.
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By affliction He teaches us many precious lessons, which without it we should never learn. By affliction He shows us our emptiness and weakness, draws us to the throne of grace, purifies our affections, weans us from the world, makes us long for heaven.
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Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity it is the very unity of hell.
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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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Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.
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Christ is never fully valued, until sin is clearly seen. We must know the depth and malignity of our disease, in order to appreciate the great Physician.
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A humble and prayerful person will find a thousand things in the Bible, which the proud student will utterly fail to discern. ~ J.C. Ryle
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Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors.
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