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.
J. C. RYLEHow is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?
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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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Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
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If you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to him.
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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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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 God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.
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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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Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.
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The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.
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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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Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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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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If men come among you who do NOT preach all the counsel of God, who do NOT preach of Christ, sin, holiness, of ruin, redemption, and regeneration, and do NOT preach of these things in a Scriptural way, you ought to cease to hear them.
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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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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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