Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
J. C. RYLEWe must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ’s steps, and let the world say what it likes.
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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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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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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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Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.
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Since Satan can’t destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
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That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.
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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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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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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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To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
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We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ’s steps, and let the world say what it likes.
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The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
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Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
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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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Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.
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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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The Gospel which we possess was not given to us only to be admired, talked of, and professed – but to be practiced.
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The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.
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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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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 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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No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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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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Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord…He waits quietly for the King.
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There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.
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Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.
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