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Follow Christ for His own sake, if you follow Him at all.

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
John Ryle
John C. Ryle
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But if there is one thing clearly and plainly laid down about election, it is this: that elect men and women may be known and distinguished by holy lives.
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Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
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Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
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If Christ had not gone to the cross and suffered in our stead, the just for the unjust, there would not have been a spark of hope for us. There would have been a mighty gulf between ourselves and God, which no man ever could have passed.
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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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Do something, by God’s help, to make heaven more full and hell more empty.
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Many, I fear, would like glory, who have no wish for grace. They would [want to] have the wages, but not the work the harvest, but not the labor the reaping, but not the sowing the reward, but not the battle. But it may not be.
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If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His existence in history they cannot deny. How is it that without force or bribery, without arms or money, He has made such an immensely deep mark on the world as He certainly has?
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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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The surest mark of true conversion is humility.
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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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Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
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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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Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition.
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If you profess to be a child of God, leave it to the Lord Jesus to sanctify you in His own way.
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Be very sure of this,-people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it only too well they understand that it condemns their own behavior they understand that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to judgment.
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What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases out of twenty, arises from different habits about private prayer. I believe that those who are not eminently holy pray little, and those who are eminently holy pray much.
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How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?
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Until we give God our heart, we give Him nothing at all.
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The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.
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