J. C. Ryle Quotes
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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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True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience.
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Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.
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No one ever said at the end of his days; 'I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul'
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Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord's people.
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If we would have good ministers, we must remember our Lord’s example, and pray for them. Their work is heavy. Their responsibility is enormous. Their strength is small. Let us see that we support them, and hold up their hands by our prayers.
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Growth in grace is one way to be happy in our religion. God has wisely linked together our comfort and our increase in holiness.
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We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God and seek salvation, unless He first called us by His grace. Without a divine call, no one can be saved.
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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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If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself.
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There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
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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?