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Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.

J. C. Ryle

Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.
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Better Expectation God Representation World
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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Defective Heaven Hell Joy Misery Sad Sadness
Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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God Offend Religion
Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.
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Affection God Meditation Thinking World Yourself
A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
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Lecture Minister Time Walk
No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Faith God Heaven Reach Repent
I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.
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Dangerous Fear Forget Quite Religious
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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Act Born Life Man Prayer Woman World
HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.
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Death Hate Play Sin
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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Education Family God Himself Learning Student Weakness
Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
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Beginning Neglect Prayer Privacy
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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Himself Love Reason Yourself
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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Doubt Eyes Heart Mistake Religious Walk Yourself
Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.
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Blind God Misery Naked Nature Sight Simplicity
Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
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Book Darkness God Religious
Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
J. C. RYLE

Identity Religious Shame Thinking

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