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.
J. C. RYLELook not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.
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Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.
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Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
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If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.
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Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.
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A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
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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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Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.
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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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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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The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must ‘plead guilty’ before God can declare us innocent.
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If you want to find out how much someone loves you, find out how much they pray for you.
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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 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 highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.
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Since Satan can’t destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
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