To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without 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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The Lord Jesus is “a friend who never changes.” There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.
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God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.
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My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.
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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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Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren.
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Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
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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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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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If men come among you who do NOT preach all the counsel of God, who do NOT preach of Christ, sin, holiness, of ruin, redemption, and regeneration, and do NOT preach of these things in a Scriptural way, you ought to cease to hear them.
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It was the whole Trinity, which at the beginning of creation said, “Let us make man”. It was the whole Trinity again, which at the beginning of the Gospel seemed to say, “Let us save man”.
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Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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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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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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Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.
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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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