God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.
J. C. RYLEIf God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.
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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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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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To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
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Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
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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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Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
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Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
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There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.
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I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.
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The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.
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No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.
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Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
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Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear… Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.
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Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.
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If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.
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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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Beware 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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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person – Jesus Christ.
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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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It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.
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The eye of God! Think of that. Everywhere, in every house, in every field, in every room, in every company, alone or in a crowd, the eye of God is always upon you.
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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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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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