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The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.

J. C. Ryle

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.
J. C. RYLE

Believe Body Faith Life Person Prayer Soul
Let us resolve by God’s grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.
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God Grace Ourselves Poor Prayer
The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
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God Himself Love People
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
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Live Place Prayer Sin Togetherness
If you want to find out how much someone loves you, find out how much they pray for you.
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Love Prayer Yourself
Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.
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Conflict Temporary Trial Yourself
Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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Fall Man Privacy
If men come among you who do NOT preach all the counsel of God, who do NOT preach of Christ, sin, holiness, of ruin, redemption, and regeneration, and do NOT preach of these things in a Scriptural way, you ought to cease to hear them.
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God Holy Man Scripture Yourself
Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.
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Affection God Meditation Thinking World Yourself
Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
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Book Darkness God Religious
To 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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Give Up Hypocrisy Regret Repent Sin Sorry
Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.
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Hell Unity Worth
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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Intellectual Live Ourselves Scripture Tongue
The only way to be really happy in such a world as this, is to be ever casting all our cares on God.
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Care God Happiness World
No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Faith God Heaven Reach Repent
Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are, and whom you serve.
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Doubt Eyes Heart Mistake Religious Walk Yourself

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