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.
J. C. RYLETo say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.
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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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Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer… He may sometimes keep us long waiting…but He will never send us empty away.
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The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
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Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear… Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.
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O Christian, look up and take comfort. Jesus has prepared a place for you, and those who follow Him shall never perish, neither shall anyone pluck them out of His hands.
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Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
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Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
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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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Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.
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No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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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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Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.
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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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To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
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