Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
J. C. RYLEThere are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
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Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.
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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.
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If men come among you who do NOT preach all the counsel of God, who do NOT preach of Christ, sin, holiness, of ruin, redemption, and regeneration, and do NOT preach of these things in a Scriptural way, you ought to cease to hear them.
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God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.
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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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Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.
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Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
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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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Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.
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Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ’s followers get from the world.
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Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord…He waits quietly for the King.
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Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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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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Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
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