If you want to find out how much someone loves you, find out how much they pray for you.
J. C. RYLEWealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer… He may sometimes keep us long waiting…but He will never send us empty away.
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Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps
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Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
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Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.
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God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.
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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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Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.
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The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.
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Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.
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Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
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Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.
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There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.
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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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It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.
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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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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.
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God 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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Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ’s followers get from the world.
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There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven – the crucified Son of God.
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The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.
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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 time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.
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Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
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Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
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