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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.

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
Giving Up, Ideas, Trying
J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.132, Editora Dracaena

Men fall in private long before they fall in public.

J. C. Ryle
Christian, Fall, Men
J.C Ryle, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “PRACTICAL RELIGION”, Lulu.com

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
Christian, Running, Real

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, Idols, Snakes

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, Trials, World

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
Speak, Christ, Ashamed
J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.326, Letcetera Publishing

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
Book, Writing, Way

Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.

J. C. Ryle
Spiritual, Disappointment, Humble

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
Morning, Reading, Giving

A tree may always be known by its fruit, and a true Christian may always be discovered by their habits, tastes & affections.

J. C. Ryle
Christian, Tree, May

We never know who they are that God will draw, and have nothing to do with it. Our duty is to invite all, and leave it to God to choose the vessels of mercy.

J. C. Ryle
Mercy, Duty, Gods Will

Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.

J. C. Ryle
Laughter, Followers, World
"Bible Commentary - The Gospel of John".

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
J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew”, p.154, Editora Dracaena

Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.

J. C. Ryle
Book, Ministers, Careful

Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.

J. C. Ryle
Trials, Conflict, Crosses

A trial is an instrument by which our Father in heaven makes Christians more holy.

J. C. Ryle
Christian, Father, Heaven
J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.271, Editora Dracaena

The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.

J. C. Ryle
Christian, Greatness, Ideas
J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Mark”, p.124, Editora Dracaena

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.

J. C. Ryle
Letting Go, Jesus, Live Life

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

J. C. Ryle
Real, Honest, Christianity

The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.

J. C. Ryle
People, Christ, Wells

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

J. C. Ryle
Love You, Want, Praying

We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.

J. C. Ryle
Men, Digging, Treasure
J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.100, Editora Dracaena

By affliction He teaches us many precious lessons, which without it we should never learn. By affliction He shows us our emptiness and weakness, draws us to the throne of grace, purifies our affections, weans us from the world, makes us long for heaven.

J. C. Ryle
Long, Heaven, Grace
"Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Mark".

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

J. C. Ryle
Debt, Christ, Reason
"Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots".

Just as the telescope and microscope show us that there is order and design in all the works of God's hand, from the greatest planet down to the least insect, so does the Bible teach us that there is wisdom, order, and design in all the events of our daily life. There is no such thing as 'chance', 'luck', or 'accident' in the Christian journey through this world.

J. C. Ryle
Christian, Journey, Hands
"Bible Commentary - The GosBible Commentary - The Gospel of Lukepel of Luke".