Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.
J. C. RYLEIf men come among you who do NOT preach all the counsel of God, who do NOT preach of Christ, sin, holiness, of ruin, redemption, and regeneration, and do NOT preach of these things in a Scriptural way, you ought to cease to hear them.
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I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.
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Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
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Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.
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That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.
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It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.
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However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
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Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.
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Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.
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Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.
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We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ’s steps, and let the world say what it likes.
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The eye of God! Think of that. Everywhere, in every house, in every field, in every room, in every company, alone or in a crowd, the eye of God is always upon you.
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Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
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True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person – Jesus Christ.
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Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
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Never be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!
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Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.
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Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.
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No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.
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Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.
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The Lord Jesus is “a friend who never changes.” There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.
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To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
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Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.
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Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
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It was the whole Trinity, which at the beginning of creation said, “Let us make man”. It was the whole Trinity again, which at the beginning of the Gospel seemed to say, “Let us save man”.
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It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.
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