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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. Ryle

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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Determination Diligent Honesty Ourselves Practice Reading
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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Alone Company Eyes God Home Room Yourself
Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
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Born Day Himself Man
The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.
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Alone Content Heaven Man Selfish
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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Act Disciple Faith Obedience People Reality Visible
There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven – the crucified Son of God.
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Bridge Earth God Heaven Son
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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Combination Dangerous Forget Harm Heart Ourselves World
No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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Day Ourselves Time
Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
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Circumstance Happiness Heart State
Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.
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Conflict Temporary Trial Yourself
Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.
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Hell Unity Worth
There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
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Account Action Consequence Forever
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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God Idol Manufacture Mercy Yourself
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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Evil God Talk Tempt Yourself
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
Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.
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Action Fear Guard Imagination Sin Yourself

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