People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.
J. C. RYLEThe love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
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We know but little of true Christianity, if we don’t feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
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The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.
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Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.
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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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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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Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.
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The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.
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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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No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer… He may sometimes keep us long waiting…but He will never send us empty away.
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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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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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If you want to find out how much someone loves you, find out how much they pray for you.
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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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Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
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