Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
J. C. RYLESicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.
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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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Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.
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Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
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That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.
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Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
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The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
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Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
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Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.
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Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.
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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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The Gospel which we possess was not given to us only to be admired, talked of, and professed – but to be practiced.
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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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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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Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ’s followers get from the world.
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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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