People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.
J. C. RYLEWhatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
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If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.
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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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Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.
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Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear… Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.
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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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No one ever said at the end of his days; ‘I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul’
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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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To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
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True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person – Jesus Christ.
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Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.
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The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.
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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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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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Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
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Wherever we may be, or whatever our circumstances, the Lord Jesus sees them. We are never beyond the reach of His care.
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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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Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
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Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
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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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The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.
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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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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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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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We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.
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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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