Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.
J. C. RyleMillions of people profess and call themselves Christians, whom the Apostle Paul would not have called Christians at all.
J. C. RyleInstruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children will never believe you are in earnest, and really wish them to obey you, so long as your actions contradict your counsel... Think not your children will practise what they do not see you do. You are their model picture, and they will copy what you are... will seldom learn habits which they see you despise, or walk in paths in which you do not walk yourself.
J. C. Ryle