Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
J. C. RYLEGod 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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Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord’s people.
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Let us resolve by God’s grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.
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It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.
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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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Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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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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The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must ‘plead guilty’ before God can declare us innocent.
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Tomorrow is the devil’s day, but today is God’s. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.
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Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
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Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.
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Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
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Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.
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It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.
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Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.
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