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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.

J. C. Ryle

What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
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Best Fake Reading Regular Safety
Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
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Beautiful Grace Humility Pride Rare Sin
It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.
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Body Heart Home Religion Satisfaction
Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
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Evidence Forgiveness Sin
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
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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Defective Heaven Hell Joy Misery Sad Sadness
There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven – the crucified Son of God.
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Bridge Earth God Heaven Son
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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Anxiety Gold Humble Loss Sick
And I believe it to be a signal evidence of the Spirit’s presence when the Word is really precious to a man ‘s soul.
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Believe Evidence Man Myself Soul Spirit
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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Bad Beware Book Reading Yourself
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
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
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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Drive Ourselves Religion Thinking Trial World
We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
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Hide Man Reading Treasure
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
Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ’s followers get from the world.
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Follow Laughter Religious Reward World

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 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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