Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
J. C. RYLEFear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
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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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Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
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Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.
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It was the whole Trinity, which at the beginning of creation said, “Let us make man”. It was the whole Trinity again, which at the beginning of the Gospel seemed to say, “Let us save man”.
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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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The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must ‘plead guilty’ before God can declare us innocent.
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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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God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.
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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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Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
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Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
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Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.
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Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus.
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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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Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.
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