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.
J. C. RYLEThere 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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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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Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
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Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
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Since Satan can’t destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
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Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.
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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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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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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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Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
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Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.
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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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The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.
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Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.
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True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person – Jesus Christ.
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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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