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.
J. C. RYLELet 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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It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.
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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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Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
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Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.
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We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
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Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.
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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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There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.
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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.
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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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Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
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I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.
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Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.
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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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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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To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
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Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
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I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.
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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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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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Never be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!
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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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How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?
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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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If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.
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