A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
J. C. RYLEWe know but little of true Christianity, if we don’t feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
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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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Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.
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Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.
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Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.
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Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.
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The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.
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People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.
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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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It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.
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If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.
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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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Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
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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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Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
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Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
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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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Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
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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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However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
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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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Never be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!
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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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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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Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.
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The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.
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We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
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