No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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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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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If you want to find out how much someone loves you, find out how much they pray for you.
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Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
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Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.
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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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It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.
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We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
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According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.
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Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.
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There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven – the crucified Son of God.
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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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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
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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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Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.
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