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 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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Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer… He may sometimes keep us long waiting…but He will never send us empty away.
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HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.
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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
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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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And I believe it to be a signal evidence of the Spirit’s presence when the Word is really precious to a man ‘s soul.
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We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.
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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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Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
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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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God knew what we were before conversion – wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion – weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.
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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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There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
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Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
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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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