There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven – the crucified Son of God.
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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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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Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.
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O Christian, look up and take comfort. Jesus has prepared a place for you, and those who follow Him shall never perish, neither shall anyone pluck them out of His hands.
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The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must ‘plead guilty’ before God can declare us innocent.
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Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
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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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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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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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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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There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.
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Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
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If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.
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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 only way to be really happy in such a world as this, is to be ever casting all our cares on God.
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The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.
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