Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
J. C. RYLEThe Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.
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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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The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must ‘plead guilty’ before God can declare us innocent.
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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 is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven – the crucified Son of God.
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Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
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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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If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.
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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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There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.
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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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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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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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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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Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
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No one ever said at the end of his days; ‘I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul’
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