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Am I honest? Am I sincere? Do I really desire first the praise of God?

Am I honest? Am I sincere? Do I really desire first the praise of God?

J. C. Ryle
Desire, Firsts, Honest
J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.90, Editora Dracaena

A deep sense of sin, a humble willingness to be saved in God's way, a teachable readiness to give up our own prejudices when a more excellent way is shown, these are the principal things. These things the two disciples possessed, and therefore our Lord "went with them" and guided them into all truth.

J. C. Ryle
Giving Up, Humble, Two
J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.455, Editora Dracaena

When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance.

J. C. Ryle
Jesus, Men, Giving

The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and...one moment after God commands them to stop.

J. C. Ryle
Hands, Wicked, Moments

Let us awake to a sense of the perilous state of many professing Christians. 'Without holiness no man shall see the Lord'; without sanctification there is no salvation (Hebrews 12:14). Then what an enormous amount of so-called religion there is which is perfectly useless!

J. C. Ryle
Christian, Men, Useless

The brightest saint is the man who has the most heart-searching sense of his own sinfulness, and the liveliest sense of his own complete acceptance in Christ.

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Heart, Acceptance, Men
J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.461, Editora Dracaena

Politics, or controversy, or party spirit, or worldliness, have eaten out the heart of lively piety in too many of us. The subject of personal godliness has fallen sadly into the background.

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

No doubt a man may be saved, like the penitent thief, without having received the Lord's Supper. It is not a matter of absolute and indispensable necessity, like repentance, faith, and conversion. But it is impossible to say that any professing Christian is in a safe, healthy, or satisfactory condition of soul, who habitually refuses to obey Christ and attend the Lord's Table.

J. C. Ryle
Christian, Men, Healthy
J.C. Ryle (2015). “The Upper Room: Biblical Truths For Modern Times”, p.286, Whitaker House

We ought to regard the sacrament of baptism with reverence. An ordinance of which the Lord Jesus Himself partook, is not to be lightly esteemed. An ordinance to which the great Head of the Church submitted, ought to be ever honorable in the eyes of professing Christians.

J. C. Ryle
Christian, Jesus, Eye
J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew”, p.19, Editora Dracaena

A man may commit sin and yet be ignorant of it, and fancy himself innocent when he is guilty... We shall do well to remember that when we make our own miserably imperfect knowledge and consciousness the measure of our sinfulness, we are on very dangerous ground.

J. C. Ryle
Men, Ignorant, May
J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.23, Letcetera Publishing

He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never let it be said that any perished at the foot of the cross.

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

Such true worship will stand the test of Christ's great principle, “By their fruits you shall know them”. It sanctifies the Christian's life, and makes them walk with God, lifting them above fear and love of the world. It enables a Christian to show God to other folks. Such worship comes from heaven, and has the mark of God upon it.

J. C. Ryle
Christian, Heaven, And Love

Wrong views about holiness are generally traceable to wrong views about human corruption.

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Views, Holiness, Corruption
J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at them till harvest, as expect a believer to attain much holiness who was not diligent about his Bible reading, his prayers, and the use of his Sundays.

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

The cause of Christ does not need less working, but it does need among the workers, more praying.

J. C. Ryle
Doe, Needs, Causes
J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.85, Editora Dracaena

To talk of comparing the Bible with other "sacred books" so called, such as the Koran...or the book of Mormon, is positively absurd. You might as well compare the sun with a rushlight, or Skiddaw with a molehill, or St. Paul's with an Irish hovel, or the Portland vase with a garden pot, or the Kohinoor diamond with a bit of glass. God seems to have allowed the existence of these pretended revelations, in order to prove the immeasurable superiority of His own Word.

J. C. Ryle
Bible, Book, Garden

Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another Christmas is kept.

J. C. Ryle
Christian, Religious, Holiday

We live in an age when there is a false glare on the things of time and a great mist over the things of eternity.

J. C. Ryle
Age, Eternity, Mist

I must honestly declare my conviction that, since the days of the Reformation, there never has been so much profession of religion without practice, so much talking about God without walking with Him, so much hearing God's words without doing them.

J. C. Ryle
Talking, Practice, Hearing
J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.384, Letcetera Publishing

A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.

J. C. Ryle
Eye, Men, Grace

When you cannot answer a skeptic, be content to wait for more light; but never forsake a great principle.

J. C. Ryle
Light, Waiting, Principles
J. C. Ryle (2007). “Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.368, Hendrickson Publishers

If you would train your children rightly, train them in the way they should go and not in the way they would.

J. C. Ryle
Christian, Children, Way
J.C. Ryle (2015). “The Duties of Parents”, p.4, Booklassic

Infidelity and skepticism abound everywhere. In one form or another they are to be found in every rank and class of society. Thousands are not ashamed to say that they regard the Bible as an old obsolete Jewish book, which has no special claim on our faith and obedience, and that it contains many inaccuracies and defects. In a day like this, the true Christian should be able to set his foot down firmly, and to render a reason of his confidence in God's Word. He should be able by sound arguments to show good cause why he thinks the Bible is from heaven, and not of men.

J. C. Ryle
Christian, Book, Men

No doubt men may easily think too little of God the Father, and God the Spirit, but no man ever thought too much of Christ.

J. C. Ryle
Too Much, Christ, Persons
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Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished.

J. C. Ryle
Idols, Lasts, Firsts