Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.
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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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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Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.
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Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
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However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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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.
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The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
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No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.
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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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Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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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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It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.
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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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Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ’s followers get from the world.
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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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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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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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Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
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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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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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Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord…He waits quietly for the King.
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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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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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We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
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