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J. C. Ryle

" If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange thing, if we have to endure sicknesses, losses, bereavements, and disappointments, just like other men. Free pardon and full forgiveness, grace along the way, and glory at the endall this our Savior has promised to give. But He has never promised that we shall have no afflictions. "

J. C. Ryle

God , Forgiveness , Christian

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" If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him. "

J. C. Ryle

Christ , Speak

" 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. "

J. C. Ryle

Thinking , World , Trials

" Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not holy; a God who as a heaven for every body, but a hell for none; a God who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and broad in eternity. Such a God is an idol of your own, as truly an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him. He is not the God of the Bible, and beside the God of the Bible there is no God at all. "

J. C. Ryle

Hands

" It costs something to be a real Christian, according to the standard of the Bible. There are enemies to be overcome, battles to be fought, sacrifices to be made, an Egypt to be forsaken, a wilderness to be passed through, a cross to be carried, a race to be run. Conversion is not putting a person in an arm-chair and taking them easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory. "

J. C. Ryle

Running , Christian , Real

" We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ's steps, and let the world say what it likes. "

J. C. Ryle

Ideas , Giving , Trying , Up

" Do nothing that you would not like God to see. Say nothing you would not like God to hear. Write nothing you would not like God to read. Go no place where you would not like God to find you. Read no book of which you would not like God to say, "Show it to Me." Never spend your time in such a way that you would not like to have God say, "What are you doing? "

J. C. Ryle

Way , Writing , Book

" Read the Bible daily. Make it part of your everyday business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Gather your manna fresh every morning. Choose your own seasons and hours. Do not scramble over and hurry your reading. Give your Bible the best, and not the worst, part of your time. But whatever plan you pursue, let it be a rule of your life to visit the throne of grace and the Bible every day. "

J. C. Ryle

Giving , Reading , Morning

" Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray. "

J. C. Ryle

Heart , Devil , Watches

" Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully. "

J. C. Ryle

Christ

" A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long. "

J. C. Ryle

Christian , Long , Doe

" If you want to find out how much someone loves you, find out how much they pray for you. "

J. C. Ryle

Love , Want , Praying , You

" Let us be real, honest, and sincere in our Christianity. We cannot deceive an all-seeing God. "

J. C. Ryle

Christianity , Real , Honest

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