Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.
J. C. RYLEI 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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Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
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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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Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.
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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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Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
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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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The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.
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The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.
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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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Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
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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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The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.
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The only way to be really happy in such a world as this, is to be ever casting all our cares on God.
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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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It was the whole Trinity, which at the beginning of creation said, “Let us make man”. It was the whole Trinity again, which at the beginning of the Gospel seemed to say, “Let us save man”.
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