If you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to him.
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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The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.
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To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.
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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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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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It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.
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Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.
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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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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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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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People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.
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Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.
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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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God 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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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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Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.
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How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?
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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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Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
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Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps
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We know but little of true Christianity, if we don’t feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
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It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.
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We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ’s steps, and let the world say what it likes.
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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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To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
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The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
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The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.
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