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.
J. C. RYLELet us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.
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The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
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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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I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.
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Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.
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The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
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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.
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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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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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Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
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Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
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God knew what we were before conversion – wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion – weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.
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Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
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There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.
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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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Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord…He waits quietly for the King.
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