Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.
J. C. RYLELet us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
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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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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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Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus.
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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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O Christian, look up and take comfort. Jesus has prepared a place for you, and those who follow Him shall never perish, neither shall anyone pluck them out of His hands.
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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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To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
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Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
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Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
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God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.
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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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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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Let us resolve by God’s grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.
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Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.
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Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
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