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Love Quotes by J. C. Ryle

42 Love quotes by J. C. Ryle

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Love as a silver thread runs through daily actions, urging believers to practice what they preach. The quotes stress that true faith is felt and lived, not just spoken, and that following Christ may require giving up comfort. They also highlight the personal, inward work of sanctification.

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The surest mark of true conversion is humility.

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The love of the Bible will show itself in a believer's actions.

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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.

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Let us beware of repentance without evidence.

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Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.

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We have the truth and we need not be afraid to say so.

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To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.

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There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.

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A right heart leans on Christ, hangs on Christ, builds on Christ and cleaves to Christ.

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

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Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world…

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Sin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission.

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The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when…

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There is no fickleness about Jesus: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.

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The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed.

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Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.

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Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him…

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When I speak of a man growing in grace, I mean simply this - that his sense of sin is becoming deeper,…

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By affliction He teaches us many precious lessons, which without it we should never learn. By affliction He shows us our emptiness…

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By affliction Christ shows us our emptiness and weakness, draws us to the throne of grace, purifies our affections, weans us from…

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Sanctification is that inward spiritual work which the Lord Jesus Christ works in a man by the Holy Spirit when He calls…

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We must cast away everything which hinders us upon our road towards heaven – the lust of the flesh, the lust of…

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Humility and love are precisely the graces which the men of the world can understand, if they do not comprehend doctrines. They…

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Prayer is the very life-breath of true Christianity.

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

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That Bible is read best - which is practiced most!

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Hell itself is truth known too late

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Christ is never fully valued, until sin is clearly seen.

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If you and sin are friends, you and God are not yet reconciled.

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God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.

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Until we give God our heart, we give Him nothing at all.

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Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.

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Do we profess to love Christ? Then let us show it by our lives.

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We may love money without having it, just as we may have money without loving it.

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Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God.

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The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of…

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The love of our Lord Jesus Christ towards sinners is strikingly shown in His steady purpose of heart to die for them.

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What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.

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If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful…

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

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When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right.

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Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.

The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.

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Sunday morning, before we go to hear the Word of God preached...let us not rush into God’s presence careless, reckless, and unprepared, as if…

The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.

That Bible is read best, which is practised most.

O Christian, look up and take comfort. Jesus has prepared a place for you, and those who follow Him shall never perish, neither shall…

Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may…

Let it be a settled principle ...that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of…

That Bible is read best - which is practiced most!

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

To be born again is, as it were, to enter upon a new existence, to have a new mind, a new heart, new views,…