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We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.

J. C. Ryle

Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.
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Blind God Misery Naked Nature Sight Simplicity
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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Argument Fear Holy People Punishment Reward
There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
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Account Action Consequence Forever
A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
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Cheap Cost End Evidence Religious Worth
The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
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Greatness Ideas Service World
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
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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Give Up Ideas Impossible Try Walk Wasted Time World
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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Accounts Discover Fall In Love People Private
Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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Fall Man Privacy
I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.
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Born Care Dangerous Live Myself Person
Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
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Circumstance Happiness Heart State
Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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God Offend Religion
Wherever we may be, or whatever our circumstances, the Lord Jesus sees them. We are never beyond the reach of His care.
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Care Circumstance God Himself Reach See
The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.
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God Religious Scripture World
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 beware of repentance without evidence.
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Beware Evidence Repent

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