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.
J. C. RYLEThe Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.
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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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God does not look at riches, titles, education, or beauty. There is only one thing that God does look at, and that is the soul.
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My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.
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To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
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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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The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.
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The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.
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Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
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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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Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.
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Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.
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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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If you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to him.
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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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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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