Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
J. C. RYLEHATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.
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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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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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Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
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Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
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The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.
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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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God knew what we were before conversion – wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion – weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.
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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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A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
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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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If you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to him.
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The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.
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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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Tomorrow is the devil’s day, but today is God’s. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.
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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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