Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
J. C. RYLEJust as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.
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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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Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
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Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.
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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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We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
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Never be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!
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There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
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According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.
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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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Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord’s people.
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The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.
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Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.
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Since Satan can’t destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
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Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.
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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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