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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
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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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We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.
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The chief end for which He lived and died was to provide eternal redemption for mankind.
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Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible-reading.
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The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.
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However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
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Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers.
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Wrong views about holiness are generally traceable to wrong views about human corruption.
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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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To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
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Hell itself is truth known too late
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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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The surest mark of true conversion is humility.
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Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
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Sin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission.
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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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Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.
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