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The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.

J. C. Ryle

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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Accounts Discover Fall In Love People Private
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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Beginning Easy Heaven Himself Man Victory Win
We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
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Hide Man Reading Treasure
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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Call Dedication Name Religious
Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.
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Conflict Temporary Trial Yourself
Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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God Happiness Poverty Wealth
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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Anxiety Gold Humble Loss Sick
There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.
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Appearance Peace Universe
Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.
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Believe Evidence Ourselves Religious
There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
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Account Action Consequence Forever
Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus.
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Evil God Talk Tempt Yourself
No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Faith God Heaven Reach Repent
The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.
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Death God Live Presence Ready
Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
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Live Religious Scripture
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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Action Fear Guard Imagination Sin Yourself
To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
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God Grace Heaven Hope Prayer

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