Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
J. C. RYLEHATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.
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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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The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
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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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However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
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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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Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus.
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The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.
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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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Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
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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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No one ever said at the end of his days; ‘I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul’
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If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.
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God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.
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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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