According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.
J. C. RYLELet 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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Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
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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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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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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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No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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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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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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Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.
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Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
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There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.
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The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
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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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Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
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Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
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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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