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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.

J. C. Ryle

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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Believe Communication God Live Person Proposition True
We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.
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God Himself Respect Worth
What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
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Best Fake Reading Regular Safety
Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps
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Affect Character Company Himself Man
Never be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!
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Religion Satisfaction Standard World
The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
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Greatness Ideas Service World
The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
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God Himself Love People
Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.
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Act Born Life Man Prayer Woman World
Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
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Guilty Peace Portion Sacrifice Truth
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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Believe Evidence Man Myself Soul Spirit
Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.
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Drive Ourselves Religion Thinking Trial World
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
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Live Place Prayer Sin Togetherness
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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Desire Earth Eyes Glory God Myself People Writing
However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
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Corruption Heart Live Ourselves Past
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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Intellectual Live Ourselves Scripture Tongue
It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.
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Friendship Hard Impossible Relative

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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