HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.
J. C. RYLEThe Gospel which we possess was not given to us only to be admired, talked of, and professed – but to be practiced.
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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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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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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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Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
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Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord…He waits quietly for the King.
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The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.
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There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.
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The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
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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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To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.
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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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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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I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.
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Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
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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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