Beware of false Christs. Study sanctification to the utmost, but make not a Christ of it.
ROBERT MURRAY M'CHEYNEA man is what he is on his knees, and no more.
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Watch against lip religion. Above all abide in Christ and he will abide in you.
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Remember also, the present is your only time to be saved. There is no believing, no repenting, no conversion in the grave—no minister will speak to you there. This is the time of conversion.
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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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A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself.
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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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The seed of every sin known to man is in my heart.
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There is nothing a natural man hates more than prayer.
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Self-righteousness….is the largest idol of the human heart – the idol which man loves most and God hates most. Dearly beloved, you will always be going back to this idol.
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Let us see God before man every day.
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It is the mark of a hypocrite to be a Christian everywhere except at home.
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Are we not all immortal till our work is done?
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My people’s greatest need is my personal holiness
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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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Get your texts from God – your thoughts, your words, from God… It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus.
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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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Never forget that the end of a sermon is the salvation of the people.
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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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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.
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If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.
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Even in the wildest storms the sky is not all dark; and so in the darkest dealings of God with His children, there are always some bright tokens for good.
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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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For every look at self, take 10 looks at Christ.
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It is a sure mark of grace to desire more.
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If Christ justifies you, He will sanctify you! He will not save you and leave you in your sins.
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A man is what he is on his knees, and no more.
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I know well that when Christ is nearest, Satan also is busiest.
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