Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
J. C. RYLEWhat is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
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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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What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
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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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Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
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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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Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps
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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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If you want to find out how much someone loves you, find out how much they pray for you.
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Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
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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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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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The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.
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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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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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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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