Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
J. C. RYLEThe 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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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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If you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to him.
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The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.
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No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.
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Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
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There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven – the crucified Son of 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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And I believe it to be a signal evidence of the Spirit’s presence when the Word is really precious to a man ‘s soul.
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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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Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.
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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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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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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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Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.
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