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However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.

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The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
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Greatness Ideas Service World
Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
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Guilty Peace Portion Sacrifice Truth
Let us resolve by God’s grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.
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God Grace Ourselves Poor Prayer
Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray.
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Combination Dangerous Forget Harm Heart Ourselves World
Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.
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God Reason Return Season Sin World
No one ever said at the end of his days; ‘I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul’
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Care Day End God Myself Reading Soul Thinking
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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Accounts Discover Fall In Love People Private
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
Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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God Offend Religion
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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Beginning Easy Heaven Himself Man Victory Win
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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Build Goodness Oneself Parents Training
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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Feeling People Religion Soul True
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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Eyes Happiness Heart Poor Prayer Right Weakness
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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Ourselves Religious Sin True World
Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
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Born Day Himself Man
Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.
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Conflict Temporary Trial Yourself

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