J. C. Ryle Quotes

The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent.

J. C. Ryle

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• One thing that helps to stretch me is to listen to other preacher's sermons. Every year, I will listen to at least ten other preachers, both to hear God speak to me, and also to evaluate their preaching to see what I can learn and how I can improve my own preaching.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • Speak
  • Year

• Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Work
  • God
  • Nature

• I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

  

  Orson Welles
  • God
  • Want
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• I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Good
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• I always love listening to Bob Dylan. 'Blood on the Tracks' is one of my favorite albums.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Love
  • Listening
  • Blood

• L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Nice
  • Hand
  • Learn

• He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
  • House
  • Paradise

• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • True
  • Religion

• Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Up
  • God
  • Art

• The Cause of God is not a theatrical display that is presented every hour, of which some new diversion may be asked for every day. If it were thus, the Cause of God would become mere child's play.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • God
  • May
  • Day

• Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Sin
  • Paradise
  • Return

• I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • World
  • God
  • Heart

• Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • God
  • Age
  • Success

• In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Life
  • God
  • Heart

• God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

  

  Xenophanes
  • God
  • Men
  • Thought

• It's weird because my parents don't really understand my business. I get fan mail all day long, but if a piece happens to get to their house, they're like, 'Oh, my God, you've got a fan! You have to write them back. You have to do it!'

  

  Idris Elba
  • God
  • Long
  • Business

• Growing up, the last thing I ever thought I'd do is be an entertainer.

  

  Lyle Lovett
  • Up
  • Growing

• The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family... but as the head of the family.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • Family
  • Chinese

• Instead of cutting tax rates for the rich, we should focus on making the tax system simpler for ordinary Australians.

  

  Andrew Leigh
  • Focus
  • Simpler
  • Tax Rates

• In the summer of 1952, when I was 30, the Army assigned me to an infantry unit fighting in Korea. Meanwhile, though, there was other news in my family: My father had become the Republican presidential nominee. As an ambitious young major, I refused any offers for other assignments.

  

  John Eisenhower
  • Family
  • Father
  • Fighting

• Wolf Boy is absolutely beguiling. Evan Kuhlman has boundless empathy for all his characters, and his wonderful protagonist Stephen is, in turn, boundlessly inventive. . . . This is an auspicious debut.

  

  Valerie Sayers
  • Character
  • Boy
  • Boys

• The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Blood
  • Sin