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Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus.
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No doubt men may easily think too little of God the Father, and God the Spirit, but no man ever thought too much of Christ.
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Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to preach the Gospel.
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Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.
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But if there is one thing clearly and plainly laid down about election, it is this: that elect men and women may be known and distinguished by holy lives.
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True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience.
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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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Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.
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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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If you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to him.
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The faith that has not a sanctifying influence on the character is no better than the faith of devils.
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Let us watch against PRIDE in every shapepride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride in our own goodness.
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What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases out of twenty, arises from different habits about private prayer. I believe that those who are not eminently holy pray little, and those who are eminently holy pray much.
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Parents, do you wish to see your children happy? Take care, then, that you train them to obey when they are spoken to, -to do as they are bid.... Teach them to obey while young, or else they will be fretting against God all their lives long, and wear themselves out with the vain idea of being independent of His control.
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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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The true Christian does not need to be reminded that he has a crucified Master. He often thinks of Him.
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We never know who they are that God will draw, and have nothing to do with it. Our duty is to invite all, and leave it to God to choose the vessels of mercy.
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There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
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No one ever said at the end of his days; 'I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul'
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If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself.
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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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True Christian is not an angel; he is not a halfangelic being, in whom is no weakness, or blemish, or infirmity: he is nothing of the kind. He is nothing more than a sinner who has found out his sinfulness, and has learned the blessed secret of living by faith in Christ.
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Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.
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He that would be conformed to Christ's image, and become a Christ-like man, must be constantly studying Christ Himself.
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