Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
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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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Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
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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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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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Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.
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Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
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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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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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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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Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.
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Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.
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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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The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.
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Let us resolve by God’s grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.
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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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It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.
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Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
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