# “Let this be your motto and your guide” by J.C. Ryle

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- Published: 2025-02-20T12:00:00-06:00
- Author: tollelege

“Oh, keep your eye steadily fixed on Christ, and you shall go through fire and water
and they shall not hurt you.

Are you tempted? _Look unto Jesus_.

Are you afflicted? _Look unto Jesus_.

Do all speak evil of you? _Look unto Jesus_.

Do you feel cold, dull, backsliding? _Look unto Jesus_.

Never say, ‘_I will heal myself and then look unto Jesus, I will get into a good
frame and then take comfort in my Beloved_.’

It is the very delusion of Satan.

But whether you are weak or strong, in the valley or on the mount, in sickness or
in health, in sorrow or in joy, in going out or in coming in, in youth or in age,
in richness or in poverty, in life or in death, let this be your motto and your 
guide— ‘_LOOKING UNTO JESUS._‘”

–J.C. Ryle, [_The Christian Race and Other Sermons_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1800404905?tag=toletaupanre-20)(
Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2024), 147.

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