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.
J. C. RYLEThe love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
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Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
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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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The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
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A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
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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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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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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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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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Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
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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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What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
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Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.
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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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No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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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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