No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
J. C. RYLEBeware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.
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We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ’s steps, and let the world say what it likes.
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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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Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
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Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.
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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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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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To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.
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Let us resolve by God’s grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.
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The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.
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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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It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.
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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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Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
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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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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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