Seek to be made holier every day; pray, strive, wrestle for the spirit, to make you like God. Be as much you can with God.
ROBERT MURRAY M'CHEYNEAh! believers, you are a tempted people. You are always poor and needy. And God intends it should be so, to give you constant errands to go to Jesus. Some may say, it is not good to be a believer; but ah! see to whom we can go.
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Oh how I wished that I had a tongue like thunder, that I might make all hear; or that I had a frame like iron, that I might visit every one and say, Escape for thy life! Ah sinner! You little know how I fear that you will lay the blame of your damnation at my door.
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Affliction shows the power of Christ’s blood, when it gives peace in an hour of trouble, when it can make happy in sickness, poverty, persecution and death. Do not be surprised if you suffer, but glorify God.
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It is the mark of a hypocrite to be a Christian everywhere except at home.
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The seed of every sin known to man is in my heart.
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This alone can give you peace-I have a high priest in heaven. When you are dying – when friends can do you no good – when sins rise up like spectres around your bed – what can give you peace ? This – “I have a high priest in heaven”
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For every look at self, take 10 looks at Christ.
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Learn much of the Lord Jesus. For every look at yourself take ten looks at Christ. He is altogether lovely . . . .
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Use your health while you have it, my dear friend and brother. Do not cast away peculiar opportunities that may never come again. You know not when your last Sabbath with your people may come.
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Speak for eternity. Above all things, cultivate your own spirit. A word spoken by you when your conscience is clear, and your heart full of God’s Spirit, is worth ten thousand words spoken in unbelief and sin.
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A man is what he is on his knees, and no more.
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I never see a sign Licensed to sell spirits without thinking that it is a license to ruin souls.
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When the voice of Christ speaks through the Word, then you will arise, and leave all, and follow Him.
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The nearer you take anything to the light, the darker its spots will appear; and the nearer you live to God, the more you will see your own utter vileness.
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Beware of false Christs. Study sanctification to the utmost, but make not a Christ of it.
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A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself.
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