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J. C. Ryle Quote

“I believe that the want of our age is not more "free" handling of the Bible, but more "reverent" handling, more humility, more patient study, and more prayer.”

— J. C. Ryle

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

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

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When does the building of the Spirit really begin to appear in a man's heart? It begins, so far as we can judge, when he first pours out his heart to God in prayer.

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Grant that the Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible is God's truth, and I know not in what way you can escape the doctrine that there is salvation only in Christ . From the liberality which says every body is right—from the charity which forbids you to say any body is wrong—from the peace which is bought at the expense of truth, may the good Lord deliver you.

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Truth

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All the sciences in the world never smoothed down a dying pillow. No earthly philosophy ever supplied hope in death.

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Science

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I cannot find in Scripture that any one ever got to heaven merely by sincerity, or was accepted with God if he was only earnest in maintaining his own views. Sincerity cannot put away sin.

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Wisdom

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