Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
J. C. RYLELet us resolve by God’s grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.
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Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.
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Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.
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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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Let us resolve by God’s grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.
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Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
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Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
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We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ’s steps, and let the world say what it likes.
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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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Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
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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 nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.
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A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
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There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.
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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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And I believe it to be a signal evidence of the Spirit’s presence when the Word is really precious to a man ‘s soul.
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