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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.

J. C. Ryle

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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Death Hate Play Sin
Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear… Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.
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Children Father Forget Imitation Mindset Mom Principle Strong
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
Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps
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Affect Character Company Himself Man
We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.
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God Himself Respect Worth
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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Combination Dangerous Forget Harm Heart Ourselves World
The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
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Greatness Ideas Service World
Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
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Identity Religious Shame Thinking
There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
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Account Action Consequence Forever
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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Himself Love Reason Yourself
Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
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Evidence Forgiveness Sin
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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Beginning Creation Man Save
There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.
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Kind Offend Religious Sacrifice World Worth
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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Care God Happiness World
The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must ‘plead guilty’ before God can declare us innocent.
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Blood Declare God Innocence Sin
Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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God Offend Religion

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