Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
J. C. RYLEThe Lord Jesus is “a friend who never changes.” There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.
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Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord’s people.
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Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.
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That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.
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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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Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
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Tomorrow is the devil’s day, but today is God’s. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.
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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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Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
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Never be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!
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A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
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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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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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Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps
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The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.
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Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.
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