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And I believe it to be a signal evidence of the Spirit’s presence when the Word is really precious to a man ‘s soul.

J. C. Ryle

The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must ‘plead guilty’ before God can declare us innocent.
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Blood Declare God Innocence Sin
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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Conscience Evil Fear Heart Ourselves
The eye of God! Think of that. Everywhere, in every house, in every field, in every room, in every company, alone or in a crowd, the eye of God is always upon you.
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Alone Company Eyes God Home Room Yourself
There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
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Account Action Consequence Forever
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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Give Up Hypocrisy Regret Repent Sin Sorry
However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
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Corruption Heart Live Ourselves Past
Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
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Believe Body Faith Life Person Prayer Soul
Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.
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Affection God Meditation Thinking World Yourself
If you want to find out how much someone loves you, find out how much they pray for you.
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Love Prayer Yourself
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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Book Care Friendship God Minister Word
Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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Fall Man Privacy
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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Determination Diligent Honesty Ourselves Practice Reading
The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.
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Alone Content Heaven Man Selfish
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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Kind Offend Religious Sacrifice World Worth
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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Drive Ourselves Religion Thinking Trial World
Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.
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Anxiety Gold Humble Loss Sick

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