Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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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It was the whole Trinity, which at the beginning of creation said, “Let us make man”. It was the whole Trinity again, which at the beginning of the Gospel seemed to say, “Let us save man”.
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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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True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person – Jesus Christ.
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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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The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
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Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
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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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Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus.
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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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Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
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Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps
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Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.
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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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Since Satan can’t destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
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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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Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
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Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.
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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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Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
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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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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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If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.
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Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
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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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Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
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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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