Self-righteousness….is the largest idol of the human heart – the idol which man loves most and God hates most. Dearly beloved, you will always be going back to this idol.
ROBERT MURRAY M'CHEYNEI am persuaded that I shall obtain the highest amount of present happiness.
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Remember also, the present is your only time to be saved. There is no believing, no repenting, no conversion in the grave—no minister will speak to you there. This is the time of conversion.
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Ah! believers, you are a tempted people. You are always poor and needy. And God intends it should be so, to give you constant errands to go to Jesus. Some may say, it is not good to be a believer; but ah! see to whom we can go.
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Watch against lip religion. Above all abide in Christ and he will abide in you.
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I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o’clock before I begin secret prayer.
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If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.
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Speak for eternity. Above all things, cultivate your own spirit. A word spoken by you when your conscience is clear, and your heart full of God’s Spirit, is worth ten thousand words spoken in unbelief and sin.
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Seek to be made holier every day; pray, strive, wrestle for the spirit, to make you like God. Be as much you can with God.
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Affliction shows the power of Christ’s blood, when it gives peace in an hour of trouble, when it can make happy in sickness, poverty, persecution and death. Do not be surprised if you suffer, but glorify God.
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Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.
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If Christ justifies you, He will sanctify you! He will not save you and leave you in your sins.
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The nearer you take anything to the light, the darker its spots will appear; and the nearer you live to God, the more you will see your own utter vileness.
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God’s children should pray. They should cry day and night to Him. God hears every one of your cries in the busy hour of the daytime and in the lonely watches of the night.
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I am persuaded that I shall obtain the highest amount of present happiness.
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My people’s greatest need is my personal holiness
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Do not fear the face of man. Remember how small their anger will appear in eternity.
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This alone can give you peace-I have a high priest in heaven. When you are dying – when friends can do you no good – when sins rise up like spectres around your bed – what can give you peace ? This – “I have a high priest in heaven”
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You will be incomplete Christians if you do not look for the coming again of the Lord Jesus
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A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself.
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Let us see God before man every day.
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Even in the wildest storms the sky is not all dark; and so in the darkest dealings of God with His children, there are always some bright tokens for good.
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Are we not all immortal till our work is done?
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I never see a sign Licensed to sell spirits without thinking that it is a license to ruin souls.
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A man is what he is on his knees, and no more.
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I tell you, brethren, if mercies and if judgments do not convert you, God has no other arrows in His quiver.
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Joy is increased by spreading it to others.
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It is the mark of a hypocrite to be a Christian everywhere except at home.
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