Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps
J. C. RYLEThere is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.
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My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.
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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 read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.
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Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
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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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Since Satan can’t destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
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Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ’s followers get from the world.
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God does not look at riches, titles, education, or beauty. There is only one thing that God does look at, and that is the soul.
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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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Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.
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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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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 beware of repentance without evidence.
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It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.
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Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
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