Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
J. C. RYLEPride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
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Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear… Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.
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The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.
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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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However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
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Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.
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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 must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.
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Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.
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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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God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.
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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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O Christian, look up and take comfort. Jesus has prepared a place for you, and those who follow Him shall never perish, neither shall anyone pluck them out of His hands.
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Tomorrow is the devil’s day, but today is God’s. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.
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A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
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If you want to find out how much someone loves you, find out how much they pray for you.
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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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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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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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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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Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
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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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The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.
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No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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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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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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Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord…He waits quietly for the King.
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