Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
J. C. RYLEBacksliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
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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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What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
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God does not look at riches, titles, education, or beauty. There is only one thing that God does look at, and that is the soul.
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No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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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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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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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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Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
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There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.
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Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.
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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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Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
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Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
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Since Satan can’t destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
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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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