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It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.

J. C. Ryle

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.
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Believe Body Faith Life Person Prayer Soul
HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.
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Death Hate Play Sin
To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
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God Grace Heaven Hope Prayer
The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.
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God Religious Scripture World
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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Eyes Happiness Heart Poor Prayer Right Weakness
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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Children Father Forget Imitation Mindset Mom Principle Strong
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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Alone Children Leaving Mistake Small Training
Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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God Offend Religion
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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Defective Heaven Hell Joy Misery Sad Sadness
To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.
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Give Up Hypocrisy Regret Repent Sin Sorry
Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
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Circumstance Happiness Heart State
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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Care Circumstance God Himself Reach See
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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Action Fear Guard Imagination Sin Yourself
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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Believe Evidence Man Myself Soul Spirit
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.
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Drive Ourselves Religion Thinking Trial World
We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.
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God Himself Respect Worth

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