Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.
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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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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Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord…He waits quietly for the King.
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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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Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
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The 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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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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What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
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Let us resolve by God’s grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.
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Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren.
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God knew what we were before conversion – wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion – weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.
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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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People 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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Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
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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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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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No one ever said at the end of his days; ‘I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul’
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HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.
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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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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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Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.
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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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It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.
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Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
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Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.
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I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.
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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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