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.
J. C. RYLELet 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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My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.
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Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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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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Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
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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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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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What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
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Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
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The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
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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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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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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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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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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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