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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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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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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Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
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That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.
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The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.
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The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
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Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord’s people.
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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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The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.
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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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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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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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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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No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.
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It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.
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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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