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.
J. C. RYLEA Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
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Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
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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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Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.
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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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Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.
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No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.
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Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
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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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There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven – the crucified Son of God.
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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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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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The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.
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According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.
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