What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
J. C. RYLEMen fall in private long before they fall in public.
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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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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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The only way to be really happy in such a world as this, is to be ever casting all our cares on God.
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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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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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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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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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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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Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.
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God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.
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The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
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Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
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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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There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.
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Wherever we may be, or whatever our circumstances, the Lord Jesus sees them. We are never beyond the reach of His care.
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