Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.
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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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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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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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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Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ’s followers get from the world.
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Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.
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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.
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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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The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
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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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Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
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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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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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If men come among you who do NOT preach all the counsel of God, who do NOT preach of Christ, sin, holiness, of ruin, redemption, and regeneration, and do NOT preach of these things in a Scriptural way, you ought to cease to hear them.
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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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