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J. C. Ryle Biography

John Charles Ryle (10 May 1816 – 10 June 1900) was an English Evangelical Anglican bishop. He was the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool.

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Let us serve Him faithfully as our Master. Let us obey Him loyally as our King. Let us study His teachings as our Prophet. Let us work diligently after Him as our Example. Let us look anxiously for Him as our coming redeemer of body as well as soul. But above all let us prize Him as our Sacrifice, and rest our whole weight on His death as atonement for sin. Let His blood be more precious in our eyes every year we live. Whatever else we glory in about Christ, let us glory above all things in His cross.

Blood, Body, Christian, Jesus, Kings, Rest

If we would know whether our faith is genuine, we do well to ask ourselves how we are living.

Genuine, Wells, Knows, Know, Faith

All converted people should labor to adorn the doctrine they profess by humility. If they can do nothing else, they can strive to be humble.

Converted, Humble, Humility, Labor, People

Many, I fear, would like glory, who have no wish for grace. They would [want to] have the wages, but not the work; the harvest, but not the labor; the reaping, but not the sowing; the reward, but not the battle. But it may not be.

Battle, Grace, Labor, Wish, Work

Let us remember, there is One who daily records all we do for Him, and sees more beauty in His servants' work than His servants do themselves. . . And then shall His faithful witnesses discover, to their wonder and surprise, that there never was a word spoken on their Master's behalf, which does not receive a reward.

Doe, Faithful, Let, Records, Remember, Work

To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.

Giving, Hypocrisy, Mere, Show, Sorry

Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.

Believe, Breath, Past, Prayer

Prayer is the mightiest weapon that God has placed in our hands.

Prayer, Hands, Weapons, Mightiest

Abide in Me says Jesus. Cling to Me. Stick fast to Me. Live the life of close and intimate communion with Me. Get nearer to Me. Roll every burden on Me. Cast your whole weight on Me. Never let go your hold on Me for a moment. Be, as it were, rooted and planted in Me. Do this and I will never fail you. I will ever abide in you.

Communion, Fast, Jesus, Letting Go, Live, Live Life

We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.

Prayer, Men, Enemy, Contending, Earnestly

When I speak of a man growing in grace, I mean simply this - that his sense of sin is becoming deeper, his faith stronger, his hope brighter, his love more extensive, his spiritual mindedness more marked.

Brighter, Faith, Mean, Men, Sense, Spiritual

If you profess to be a child of God, leave it to the Lord Jesus to sanctify you in His own way.

Children, God, Jesus, Lord, Way

Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.

Eye, Heart, Poor, Prayer, Weak

Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.

Christian, Expect, Fare, Slandered, Surprise, World

If you do not love Christ, let me plainly tell you what is the reason: You have no sense of debt to Him.

Christ, Debt, Love, Reason, Sense

Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.

Circumstances, Depend, Doe, Heart, Outward, States

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.

Bible, Eternity, Fancy, Hands, Idols, Snakes

It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.

Church, Heart, Hearts, Home

Let us learn to be patient in the days of darkness, if we know anything of vital union with Christ.

Darkness, Unions, Patient, Union, Let

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!

Clever, Thinking, Long, Spreading, Narrow

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