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.
J. C. RYLELove should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
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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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I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.
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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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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 Gospel which we possess was not given to us only to be admired, talked of, and professed – but to be practiced.
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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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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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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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What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
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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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Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.
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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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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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Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
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