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.
ROBERT MURRAY M'CHEYNEAre we not all immortal till our work is done?
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You will be incomplete Christians if you do not look for the coming again of the Lord Jesus
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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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There is nothing a natural man hates more than prayer.
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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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Are we not all immortal till our work is done?
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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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It is the mark of a hypocrite to be a Christian everywhere except at home.
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God’s children should pray. They should cry day and night to Him. God hears every one of your cries in the busy hour of the daytime and in the lonely watches of the night.
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Ah! 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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I am persuaded that I shall obtain the highest amount of present happiness.
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Never forget that the end of a sermon is the salvation of the people.
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A man is what he is on his knees, and no more.
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I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o’clock before I begin secret prayer.
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For every look at self, take 10 looks at Christ.
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Joy is increased by spreading it to others.
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