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Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.

J. C. Ryle

The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.
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Happiness Himself Save Scripture True
Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.
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God Idol Manufacture Mercy Yourself
There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.
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Appearance Peace Universe
Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps
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Affect Character Company Himself Man
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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Empty Goodness Himself Time Wait
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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Conversion God Guilty Himself Love Weakness
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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Beautiful Discover Lost Person Ruin Sin
Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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God Happiness Poverty Wealth
Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
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Beware Evidence Repent
Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
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Friendship Ourselves Prayer Seek
Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.
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Conflict Temporary Trial Yourself
No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Faith God Heaven Reach Repent
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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Anxiety Gold Humble Loss Sick
Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
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Circumstance Happiness Heart State
Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.
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Hell Unity Worth
It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.
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Friendship Hard Impossible Relative

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