The Gospel which we possess was not given to us only to be admired, talked of, and professed – but to be practiced.
J. C. RYLEGod does not look at riches, titles, education, or beauty. There is only one thing that God does look at, and that is the soul.
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Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
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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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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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I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.
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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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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.
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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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We know but little of true Christianity, if we don’t feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
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Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus.
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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.
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Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
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It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.
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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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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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No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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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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Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
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If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.
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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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Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
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HATE 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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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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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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The Lord Jesus is “a friend who never changes.” There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.
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