According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.
J. C. RYLEPeople fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.
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Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are, and whom you serve.
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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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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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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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Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus.
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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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We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.
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Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
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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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However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
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Let us resolve by God’s grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.
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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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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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Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.
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No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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