It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.
J. C. RYLEThe Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.
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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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Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus.
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The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.
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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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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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No one ever said at the end of his days; ‘I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul’
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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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Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
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If men come among you who do NOT preach all the counsel of God, who do NOT preach of Christ, sin, holiness, of ruin, redemption, and regeneration, and do NOT preach of these things in a Scriptural way, you ought to cease to hear them.
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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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The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.
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Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
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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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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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Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
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