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A Bible reading laity is a nation's surest defence against error.

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
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John C. Ryle
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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 resolve by God's grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.
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A zealous Savior ought to have zealous disciples.
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Prosperity is a great mercy, but adversity is a greater one, if it brings us to Christ.
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If you would train your children rightly, train them in the way they should go and not in the way they would.
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No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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The love of the Bible will show itself in a believer's actions.
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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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Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.
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If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.
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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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I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at them till harvest, as expect a believer to attain much holiness who was not diligent about his Bible reading, his prayers, and the use of his Sundays.
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True repentance begins with KNOWLEDGE of sin. It goes on to work SORROW for sin. It leads to CONFESSION of sin before God. It shows itself before a person by a thorough BREAKING OFF from sin. It results in producing a DEEP HATRED for all sin.
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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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The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.
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If you want to warm a church, put a stove in the pulpit.
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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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A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
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