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.
J. C. RYLEWe know but little of true Christianity, if we don’t feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
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The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must ‘plead guilty’ before God can declare us innocent.
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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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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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I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.
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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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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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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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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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Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.
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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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How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?
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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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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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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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Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
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HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.
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Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.
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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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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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Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.
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The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
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Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
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Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.
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Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
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Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.
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Never be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!
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