The Lord Jesus is “a friend who never changes.” There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.
J. C. RYLEWhat is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
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God knew what we were before conversion – wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion – weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.
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We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
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It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive 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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Never be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!
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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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Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
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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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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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There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.
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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.
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Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
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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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What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
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The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.
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