Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.
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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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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Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.
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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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If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.
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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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The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.
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Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray.
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No one ever said at the end of his days; ‘I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul’
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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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Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
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I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.
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What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
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The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.
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The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.
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If you want to find out how much someone loves you, find out how much they pray for you.
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