How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?
J. C. RYLENever be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!
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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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No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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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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Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
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Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
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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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The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.
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Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
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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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Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
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A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
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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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Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
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Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.
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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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