Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.
J. C. RYLEThe world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
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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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We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ’s steps, and let the world say what it likes.
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The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.
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A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
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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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Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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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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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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Since Satan can’t destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
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Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.
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There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
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Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
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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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Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.
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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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