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That is the value of keeping a pure heart. It doesn’t matter what comes at you; if your conscience is clear, no accusation sticks. The conscience is a gift from God. It’s like a skylight or window, not a lamp. In and of itself, it’s not a
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“There is nothing wrong with raising questions, pursuing possible answers, and searching for evidence. All these are processes of thought that stop short of making judgments. The problem is not that the judgments of faith are themselves improper, let alone blasphemous, for judgments are part and parcel of the thinking process that God has given us. The problem in this situation is not that we make judgments on God but that we make judgments at all when we have insufficient grounds on which to do so. Once again it is not the result of too much thinking but of the wrong sort of thinking.”
― God in the Dark: The Assurance of Faith Beyond a Shadow of Doubt
― God in the Dark: The Assurance of Faith Beyond a Shadow of Doubt
“But behavioral reform has no bearing on people’s relationship with God. It has no means to deliver them out of the bondage of sin into the kingdom of Christ. The best that morality can do is turn people into another batch of condemned Pharisees.”
― Christ's Call to Reform the Church: Timeless Demands From the Lord to His People
― Christ's Call to Reform the Church: Timeless Demands From the Lord to His People
“Ignorance of Scripture is the root of every error in religion, and the source of every heresy.”
― J.C. Ryle’s Commentaries on the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
― J.C. Ryle’s Commentaries on the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
“To know God as the sovereign God of the universe is to know ourselves as His subjects, in rebellion against Him. To know God in His holiness is to know ourselves as sinners. To know Him as love is to see ourselves as loved though unlovely. To seek God’s wisdom is to see our own foolishness in spiritual things. Since God is the only standard by which any of those things can be measured, we do not know anything properly unless we know Him. Or to put it in other terms, if we do not know God, we consider ourselves to be sovereign over our own lives, holy, loving, wise, and so on, when in reality we are none of those things.”
― The Parables of Jesus
― The Parables of Jesus
“What do you think of Christ?" What do we think of His person, and His offices? What do we think of His life, and what of His death for us on the cross? What do we think of His resurrection, ascension, and intercession at the right hand of God? Have we tasted that He is gracious? Have we laid hold on Him by faith? Have we found by experience that He is precious to our souls? Can we truly say He is my Redeemer, and my Savior, my Shepherd, and my Friend? These are serious inquiries. May we never rest until we can give a satisfactory answer to them. It will not profit us to read about Christ, if we are not joined to Him by living faith.”
― J.C. Ryle’s Commentaries on the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
― J.C. Ryle’s Commentaries on the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
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