Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
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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The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.
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It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive 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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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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Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer… He may sometimes keep us long waiting…but He will never send us empty away.
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A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
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Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.
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God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.
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The Lord Jesus is “a friend who never changes.” There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.
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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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However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
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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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Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
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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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The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
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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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Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
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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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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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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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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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According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.
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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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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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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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