HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.
J. C. RYLEMy chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.
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If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.
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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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It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.
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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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My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.
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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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Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.
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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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To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
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How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?
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Tomorrow is the devil’s day, but today is God’s. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.
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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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Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
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Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
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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 us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.
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Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord’s people.
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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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Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
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There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
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Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
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The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.
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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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The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.
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Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
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