Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.
J. C. RYLEAnd I believe it to be a signal evidence of the Spirit’s presence when the Word is really precious to a man ‘s soul.
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What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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If you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to him.
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A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
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Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are, and whom you serve.
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And I believe it to be a signal evidence of the Spirit’s presence when the Word is really precious to a man ‘s soul.
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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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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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Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
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According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.
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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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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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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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No one ever said at the end of his days; ‘I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul’
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There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.
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