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Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.

J. C. Ryle

Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps
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Affect Character Company Himself Man
The Lord Jesus is “a friend who never changes.” There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.
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Change End Friendship Himself Love
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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Death Hate Play Sin
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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Book Care Friendship God Minister Word
Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
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Evidence Forgiveness Sin
Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.
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God Idol Manufacture Mercy Yourself
Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.
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God Reason Return Season Sin World
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
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Live Place Prayer Sin Togetherness
Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
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Attention Intuition Knowledge Reading
Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.
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Act Born Life Man Prayer Woman World
However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
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Corruption Heart Live Ourselves Past
Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ’s followers get from the world.
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Follow Laughter Religious Reward World
Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.
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Confession God Heart Himself Live Love
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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Death God Live Presence Ready
It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.
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Friendship Hard Impossible Relative
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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God Grace Ourselves Poor Prayer

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