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.
J. C. RYLEIt costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.
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Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.
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Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear… Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.
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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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Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
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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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Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps
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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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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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Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.
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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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The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
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Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
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Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
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Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
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However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
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Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ’s followers get from the world.
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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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Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
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Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.
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Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
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The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.
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To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.
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Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.
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What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord…He waits quietly for the King.
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