Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
J. C. RYLEThe love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
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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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People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.
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Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
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Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.
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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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The Gospel which we possess was not given to us only to be admired, talked of, and professed – but to be practiced.
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I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.
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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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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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Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.
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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
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Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.
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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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