HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.
J. C. RYLELet 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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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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Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
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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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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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Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.
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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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To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
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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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The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must ‘plead guilty’ before God can declare us innocent.
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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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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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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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There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
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Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
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The Lord Jesus is “a friend who never changes.” There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.
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Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
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If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.
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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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We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
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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 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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Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer… He may sometimes keep us long waiting…but He will never send us empty away.
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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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Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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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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