Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.
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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Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.
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Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
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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 eye of God! Think of that. Everywhere, in every house, in every field, in every room, in every company, alone or in a crowd, the eye of God is always upon you.
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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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Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
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And I believe it to be a signal evidence of the Spirit’s presence when the Word is really precious to a man ‘s soul.
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Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are, and whom you serve.
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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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Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
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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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Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord’s people.
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The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.
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Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps
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The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.
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