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.
J. C. RYLETrue 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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We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ’s steps, and let the world say what it likes.
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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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Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.
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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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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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We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.
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Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
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Just 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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Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are, and whom you serve.
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The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.
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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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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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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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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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Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
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My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.
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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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A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
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I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.
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Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
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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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Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
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The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
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Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.
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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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Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.
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