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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.

J. C. Ryle

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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Alone Children Leaving Mistake Small Training
Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.
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Determination Diligent Honesty Ourselves Practice Reading
We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
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Hide Man Reading Treasure
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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Give Up Hypocrisy Regret Repent Sin Sorry
Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
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Circumstance Happiness Heart State
Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
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Identity Religious Shame Thinking
Since Satan can’t destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
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Addiction Destroy Devil Scripture Substitution
Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
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Beginning Neglect Prayer Privacy
Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.
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Better God Judgement Man Time
If men come among you who do NOT preach all the counsel of God, who do NOT preach of Christ, sin, holiness, of ruin, redemption, and regeneration, and do NOT preach of these things in a Scriptural way, you ought to cease to hear them.
J. C. RYLE

God Holy Man Scripture Yourself
However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
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Corruption Heart Live Ourselves Past
Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
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Live Thinking Time Yourself
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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Change End Friendship Himself Love
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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Believe Communication God Live Person Proposition True
Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
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Book Darkness God Religious
Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray.
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Combination Dangerous Forget Harm Heart Ourselves World

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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