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.
J. C. RYLENo one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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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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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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It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.
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Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
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It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.
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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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Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.
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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.
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Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.
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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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The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.
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No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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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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Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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