Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.
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 blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must ‘plead guilty’ before God can declare us innocent.
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The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
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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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HATE 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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Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray.
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It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.
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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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Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
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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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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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Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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If you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to him.
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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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Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.
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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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