We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
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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Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.
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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.
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Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
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Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
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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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Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
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The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.
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If you want to find out how much someone loves you, find out how much they pray for 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 can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.
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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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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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To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
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O Christian, look up and take comfort. Jesus has prepared a place for you, and those who follow Him shall never perish, neither shall anyone pluck them out of His hands.
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Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus.
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