True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person – Jesus Christ.
J. C. RYLENo one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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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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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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We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.
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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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Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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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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There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.
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The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.
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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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Never be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!
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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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Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
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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.
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