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. RYLEHow is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?
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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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Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.
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If men come among you who do NOT preach all the counsel of God, who do NOT preach of Christ, sin, holiness, of ruin, redemption, and regeneration, and do NOT preach of these things in a Scriptural way, you ought to cease to hear them.
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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 love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
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Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.
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We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.
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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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The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must ‘plead guilty’ before God can declare us innocent.
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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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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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There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.
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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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No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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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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