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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.

J. C. Ryle

Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
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Fear Language Poor Prayer Understand Word Yourself
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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Call Dedication Name Religious
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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Act Born Life Man Prayer Woman World
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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Believe Communication God Live Person Proposition True
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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Heaven Hell Man Religious World
Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.
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Determination Diligent Honesty Ourselves Practice Reading
Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
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Beware Evidence Repent
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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Kind Offend Religious Sacrifice World Worth
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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Children Father Forget Imitation Mindset Mom Principle Strong
Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps
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Affect Character Company Himself Man
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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Beautiful Education God Rich Soul
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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God Idol Manufacture Mercy Yourself
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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Better Expectation God Representation World
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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Alone Company Eyes God Home Room Yourself
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
There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.
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Appearance Peace Universe

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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