The only way to be really happy in such a world as this, is to be ever casting all our cares on God.
J. C. RYLEThe blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must ‘plead guilty’ before God can declare us innocent.
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Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.
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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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Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.
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People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.
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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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It 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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Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.
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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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Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.
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Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
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Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer… He may sometimes keep us long waiting…but He will never send us empty away.
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There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.
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How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?
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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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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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