According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.
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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Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
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Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps
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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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The only way to be really happy in such a world as this, is to be ever casting all our cares on God.
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If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.
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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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The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.
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No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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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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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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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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Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.
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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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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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Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.
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