We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ’s steps, and let the world say what it likes.
J. C. RYLEThe true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.
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Wherever we may be, or whatever our circumstances, the Lord Jesus sees them. We are never beyond the reach of His care.
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Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
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Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
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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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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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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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Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
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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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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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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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How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?
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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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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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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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