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Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.

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God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.
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God Save Sin Willing
Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.
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Blind God Misery Naked Nature Sight Simplicity
Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.
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Confession God Heart Himself Live Love
The Gospel which we possess was not given to us only to be admired, talked of, and professed – but to be practiced.
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Admire Possession Practice Professional Scripture
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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Beginning Creation Man Save
Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray.
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Combination Dangerous Forget Harm Heart Ourselves World
Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
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Circumstance Happiness Heart State
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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Care God Happiness World
Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren.
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Education Family God Himself Learning Student Weakness
Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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God Offend Religion
How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?
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Call Dedication Name Religious
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.
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Believe Body Faith Life Person Prayer Soul
Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
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Live Religious Scripture
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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Better God Judgement Man Time
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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Conscience Evil Fear Heart Ourselves
The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.
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Alone Content Heaven Man Selfish
Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.
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Hell Unity Worth
The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.
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God Religious Scripture World
Since Satan can’t destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
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Addiction Destroy Devil Scripture Substitution
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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Death God Live Presence Ready
Let 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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Doubt Eyes Heart Mistake Religious Walk Yourself
Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ’s followers get from the world.
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Follow Laughter Religious Reward World
There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven – the crucified Son of God.
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Bridge Earth God Heaven Son
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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Comfortable God Hands Preparation Yourself
Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
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Book Darkness God Religious
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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Heaven Hell Man Religious World
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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Believe Evidence Man Myself Soul Spirit

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