The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.
J. C. RYLEThe world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
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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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We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
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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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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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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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Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
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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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Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.
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Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
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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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Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
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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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There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven – the crucified Son of God.
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Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren.
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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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Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
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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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Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
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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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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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Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps
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Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
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Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are, and whom you serve.
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Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
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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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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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