Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord’s people.
J. C. RYLE
Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps
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Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord’s people.
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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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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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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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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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Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
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We know but little of true Christianity, if we don’t feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
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Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.
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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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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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That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.
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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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Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.
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Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
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Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.
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