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.
J. C. RYLEWherever we may be, or whatever our circumstances, the Lord Jesus sees them. We are never beyond the reach of His care.
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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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A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
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No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
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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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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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Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
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Wherever we may be, or whatever our circumstances, the Lord Jesus sees them. We are never beyond the reach of His care.
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The 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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Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren.
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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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Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.
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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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