Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
J. C. RYLELook not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.
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Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
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There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven – the crucified Son of God.
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Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
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Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.
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The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.
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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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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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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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We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.
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The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
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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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According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.
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I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.
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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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