Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
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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God knew what we were before conversion – wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion – weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.
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Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren.
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Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.
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The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.
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Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
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Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.
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Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
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Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.
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Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ’s followers get from the world.
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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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Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
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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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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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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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