Charles C. Ryrie Quotes

#1. Thus the conscience, though it may lead the unsaved man aright in some areas, cannot save him, since it is defiled, seared, and evil. But in regeneration it is cleansed and used by the Lord to guide the believer in his political, vocational, spiritual, and social relations.

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#2. By the word genuine I mean biblical, for only in the Bible do we have truth that is indisputably reliable. For this reason, the Bible must be the guide and test for all of our experiences in the spiritual life, for biblical spirituality is the only genuine spirituality.

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#3. Spirituality is a grownup yet growing relation to the Holy Spirit.

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#4. The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.

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#5. By wholesome I mean balanced. There is nothing more devastating to the practice of spiritual living than an imbalance.

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#6. That word maturity seems to hold the key to the concept of spirituality, for Christian maturity is the growth which the Holy Spirit produces over a period of time in the believer.

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#7. To be filled with the Spirit means to be controlled by

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#8. One of my former teachers repeatedly reminded us that an imbalance in theology was the same as doctrinal insanity.

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#9. While this may simply be another way of saying that spirituality is Christian maturity, it tries to delineate more openly the factors of Spirit-control over a period of time.

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#10. God regenerates (John 1:13) according to His will (James 1:18) through the sovereign work of the Holy Spirit (John 3:5) when a person believes (John 1:12) the gospel as revealed in the Word of God (1 Peter 1:23).

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#11. The second is the Word of God used in the life to affect all its parts (notice that soul, spirit, body, and heart are all mentioned in Heb. 4:12).

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#12. A Christian of longer standing may not be spiritual, not because he has had insufficient time but because during the years of his Christian life he has not allowed the Holy Spirit to control him.

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#13. A new Christian cannot be called spiritual, simply because he has not had sufficient time to grow and develop in Christian knowledge and experience.

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#14. Salvation brings into the life a new capacity and with it a new ability to think right, to love God, to purpose to do the will of God, to have a changed heart. The heart of the Christian (and this means his intellectual, emotional, volitional, and spiritual life) can now be true and pure (Heb.

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#15. In other words, the death to sin of Romans 6 is a separation from the power of the sin nature to cause the believer to continue in sin. It

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#16. These three - fellowship, the Word, and prayer - will enable the believer to experience the new life in his heart: in his intellect, emotions, will, and spiritual life.

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#17. There could be no such experience if death means extinction or cessation. Death always means separation, and it does in Romans 6 as well.

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#18. The two basic attitudes of life that must characterize genuine, biblical spirituality are thankfulness at all times and in all circumstances and the maintenance of unity in that part of the body of Christ.

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#19. In the Hebrews passage three preventives are listed for a calloused Christian heart. The first is daily exhortation of one another (3:13).

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#20. The solution to the problems of the church today lies in solving the problems of individual Christians, and the remedy is a person - the Holy Spirit.

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