We know but little of true Christianity, if we don’t feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
J. C. RYLEYour trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.
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Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
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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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Never be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!
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No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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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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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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There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.
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Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.
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The eye of God! Think of that. Everywhere, in every house, in every field, in every room, in every company, alone or in a crowd, the eye of God is always upon you.
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God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.
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To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.
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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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Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
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