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.
J. C. RYLEPride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
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It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.
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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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What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
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Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.
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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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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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Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
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Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
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Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
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Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.
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God does not look at riches, titles, education, or beauty. There is only one thing that God does look at, and that is the soul.
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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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Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
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The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.
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Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
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