The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.
J. C. RYLEWhat is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
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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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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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Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
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Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray.
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Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.
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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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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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The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.
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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
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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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A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
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Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.
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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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The only way to be really happy in such a world as this, is to be ever casting all our cares on God.
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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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There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven – the crucified Son of God.
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The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.
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Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
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The eye of God! Think of that. Everywhere, in every house, in every field, in every room, in every company, alone or in a crowd, the eye of God is always upon you.
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Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
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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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No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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The Lord Jesus is “a friend who never changes.” There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.
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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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Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
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