Backsliding Quote by J. C. Ryle Download Open image “Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.” — J. C. Ryle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Backsliding Firsts Neglect Prayer
“that backsliding generally first begins with neglect of private prayer. Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken… — J.C. Ryle Copy Share Image
What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over. — George Carey Copy Share Image
It is well said that neglected prayer is the birth-place of all evil. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's book; I call upon you not to forget the book of the soul.… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
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… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
O Christian, look up and take comfort. Jesus has prepared a place for you, and those who follow Him shall never perish, neither shall… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
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… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Prayer is the way you defeat the devil, reach the lost, restore a backslider, strengthen the saints, send missionaries out, cure the sick, accomplish… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
However advanced a man may be in piety or age; he is still in danger of falling. — Charles Simeon Copy Share Image
The deadly monotony of Christian country life where there are no beggars to feed, no drunkards to credit, which are among the moral duties… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The Christian life is never static. One must either grow in grace, or there will be backsliding and deterioration. — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
If repentance is neglected for an instant, one can lose the power of the Resurrection as he lives with the weakness of tepidity and… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
I never yet have heard of a good man having fallen when he was trying to do Christ's will and trusting on Christ's help.… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
