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.
J. C. RYLEExcept a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
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Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.
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Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
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That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.
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No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
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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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There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.
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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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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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Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear… Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.
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There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven – the crucified Son of God.
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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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Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
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Since Satan can’t destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
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It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.
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The Gospel which we possess was not given to us only to be admired, talked of, and professed – but to be practiced.
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To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
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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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If you want to find out how much someone loves you, find out how much they pray for you.
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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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Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
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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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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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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.
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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 true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.
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