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Follow Christ for His own sake, if you follow Him at all.

Follow Christ for His own sake, if you follow Him at all.

J. C. Ryle
Sake, Christ, Ifs
J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

The cross is the foundation of the Bible: If you have not yet found out that Christ crucified is the foundation of the whole volume, you have hitherto read your Bible to very little profit. Your religion is a heaven without a sun, an arch without a keystone, a compass without a needle, a clock without a spring or weights, a lamp without oil. It will not comfort you; it will not deliver your soul from hell.

J. C. Ryle
Spring, Oil, Heaven

If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His existence in history they cannot deny. How is it that without force or bribery, without arms or money, He has made such an immensely deep mark on the world as He certainly has?

J. C. Ryle
Jesus, Men, World

A Bible reading laity is a nation's surest defence against error.

J. C. Ryle
Bible, Christian, Reading
J. C. Ryle (2001). “Holiness”, p.190, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

He that would be conformed to Christ's image, and become a Christ-like man, must be constantly studying Christ Himself.

J. C. Ryle
Men, Would Be, Study
J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.257, Letcetera Publishing

Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors.

J. C. Ryle
Thinking, Gone, Neighbor
J. C. Ryle (2010). “Holiness (Abridged): Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.186, Moody Publishers

A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.

J. C. Ryle
Christian, War, May
J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.

J. C. Ryle
Outcomes, Principles, New Life
J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.41, Letcetera Publishing

Let us resolve to talk more to believers about the Bible when we meet them. Alas, the conversation of Christians, when they do meet, is often sadly unprofitable! How many frivolous, and trifling, and uncharitable things are said! Let us bring out the Bible more, and it will help to drive the devil away, and keep our hearts in tune. Oh, that we may all strive so to walk together in this evil world; that Jesus may often draw near, and go with us, as He went with the two disciples journeying to Emmaus!

J. C. Ryle
Christian, Jesus, Heart
Jay Patrick Green, Sr., John Charles Ryle (2002). “Why Read the Bible Through & How Readest Thou?”, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

What will it cost [a person] to be a true Christian? It will cost him his self-righteousn ess. He must cast away all pride and high thoughts, and conceit of his own goodness. He must be content to go to heaven as a poor sinner, saved only by free grace, and owing all to the merit and righteousness of another.

J. C. Ryle
Christian, Pride, Self

The true Christian regards all Christ's friends as his friends, members of the same body, children of the same family, soldiers in the same army, travelers to the same home. When he meets them, he feels as if he had long known them. He is more at home with them in a few minutes, than he is with many worldly people after an acquaintance of several years. And what is the secret of all this? It is simply affection to the same Savior and love to the same Lord.

J. C. Ryle
Christian, Children, Home
St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set”, p.2435, Moody Publishers

Weak, feeble and foolish as it may seem to people, the simple story of the Cross is enough for all mankind in every part of the globe.

J. C. Ryle
Simple, People, Stories

Those who confine God's love exclusively to the elect appear to me to take a narrow and contracted view of God's character and attributes....I have long come to the conclusion that men may be more systematic in their statements than the Bible, and may be led into grave error by idolatrous veneration of a system

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Character, Men, Errors

A zealous Savior ought to have zealous disciples.

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Zealous, Savior, Disciple
J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.264, Editora Dracaena

But if there is one thing clearly and plainly laid down about election, it is this: that elect men and women may be known and distinguished by holy lives.

J. C. Ryle
Men, May, Election
J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.42, Letcetera Publishing

Assurance of hope is more than life, it is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty.

J. C. Ryle
Energy, Vigor, Assurance

Sin rarely seems sin at first beginnings.

J. C. Ryle
Firsts, Sin, Seems
J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.28, Letcetera Publishing

Humility and love are precisely the graces which the men of the world can understand, if they do not comprehend doctrines. They are the graces about which there is no mystery, and they are within reach of all classes... The poorest Christian can every day find occasion for practicing love and humility.

J. C. Ryle
Christian, Humility, Men

So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.

J. C. Ryle
Happiness, Men, Long
J.C. Ryle (2015). “Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity”, p.297, Ravenio Books

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.

J. C. Ryle
Grace, Battle, Wish
J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.194, Letcetera Publishing

True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.

J. C. Ryle
Men, Fruit, Shows
J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.69, Letcetera Publishing

Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world- one is a young man that is humble, and the other is an old man that is content. I fear that this is only too true.

J. C. Ryle
Humble, Pride, Men

When a man’s heart is cold and unconcerned about religion – when his hands are never employed in doing God’s work – when his feet are not familiar with God’s ways – when his tongue is seldom or never used in prayer and praise – when his eyes are blind to the beauty of the kingdom of heaven – when his mind is full of the world, and has no room for spiritual things – when these marks are to be found in a man the word of the Bible is the right word to use about him, and that word is, ‘Dead.’

J. C. Ryle
Spiritual, Prayer, Heart
J.C. Ryle (2015). “Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity”, p.90, Ravenio Books

On the one hand stand salvation by free grace for Christ's sake; but on the other stands renewal of the carnal heart by the Spirit. We must be changed as well as forgiven; we must be renewed as well as redeemed.

J. C. Ryle
Heart, Hands, Grace

Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without prayer; friendships formed without prayer; the daily act of prayer itself hurried over, or gone through without heart: these are the kind of downward steps by which many a Christian descends to a condition of spiritual palsy, or reaches the point where God allows them to have a tremendous fall.

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