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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.

J. C. Ryle

Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
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Beginning Book Heart Learning Need Prayer Willing Wisdom
Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.
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Faith God Heart Medicine Religious Trouble
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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Evil God Talk Tempt Yourself
Wherever we may be, or whatever our circumstances, the Lord Jesus sees them. We are never beyond the reach of His care.
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Care Circumstance God Himself Reach See
Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord…He waits quietly for the King.
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Believe Himself Patience Quiet Wait
The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.
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Deep Humility Secret Spiritual Strength True
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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Confession God Heart Himself Live Love
A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
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Lecture Minister Time Walk
Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
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Evidence Forgiveness Sin
Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer… He may sometimes keep us long waiting…but He will never send us empty away.
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Empty Goodness Himself Time Wait
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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Action Fear Guard Imagination Sin Yourself
Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.
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Hell Unity Worth
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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Heaven Hell Man Religious World
There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.
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Kind Offend Religious Sacrifice World Worth
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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Conscience Evil Fear Heart Ourselves
Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
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Attention Intuition Knowledge Reading
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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Determination Diligent Honesty Ourselves Practice Reading
We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.
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God Himself Respect Worth
Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.
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Believe Evidence Ourselves Religious
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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Better Expectation God Representation World
Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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Fall Man Privacy
The Lord Jesus is “a friend who never changes.” There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.
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Change End Friendship Himself Love
God does not look at riches, titles, education, or beauty. There is only one thing that God does look at, and that is the soul.
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Beautiful Education God Rich Soul
Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.
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Blind God Misery Naked Nature Sight Simplicity
We know but little of true Christianity, if we don’t feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
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Feeling People Religion Soul True
O Christian, look up and take comfort. Jesus has prepared a place for you, and those who follow Him shall never perish, neither shall anyone pluck them out of His hands.
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Comfortable God Hands Preparation Yourself
However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
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Corruption Heart Live Ourselves Past

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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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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