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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.

J. C. Ryle

I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.
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Dangerous Fear Forget Quite Religious
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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Act Born Life Man Prayer Woman World
HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.
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Death Hate Play Sin
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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Act Disciple Faith Obedience People Reality Visible
Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
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Beginning Neglect Prayer Privacy
Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
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Beware Evidence Repent
However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
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Corruption Heart Live Ourselves Past
Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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God Offend Religion
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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Intellectual Live Ourselves Scripture Tongue
The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.
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Alone Content Heaven Man Selfish
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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Believe Communication God Live Person Proposition True
Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
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Beginning Book Heart Learning Need Prayer Willing Wisdom
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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Born Care Dangerous Live Myself Person
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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Call Dedication Name Religious
There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven – the crucified Son of God.
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Bridge Earth God Heaven Son
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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Faith Feeling Glory God Knowledge

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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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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