Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
J. C. RYLELet us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
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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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However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
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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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It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.
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Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are, and whom you serve.
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There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.
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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 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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Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.
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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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That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.
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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
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Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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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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Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
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The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
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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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No one ever said at the end of his days; ‘I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul’
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True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person – Jesus Christ.
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Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.
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Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
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Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
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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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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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God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.
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