To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
J. C. RYLEThe 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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Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
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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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Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
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No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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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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We know but little of true Christianity, if we don’t feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
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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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Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.
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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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However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
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Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.
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Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
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Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.
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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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Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord…He waits quietly for the King.
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