If you and sin are friends, you and God are not yet reconciled.
The saddest symptom about many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict and fight against spiritual apathy in their Christianity. They eat, they drink, they dress, they work, they amuse themselves, they get money, they spend money, they go through a brief round of formal religious services once or twice every week. But of the great spiritual warfare - its watchings and strugglings, its agonies and anxieties, its battles and contests - of all things they appear to know nothing at all. Let us take care that this case is not our own.
Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
Whatever others around you think, don't you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
A trial is an instrument by which our Father in heaven makes Christians more holy.
The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.
We know but little of true Christianity, if we don't feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
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.
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.
No salvation without regeneration - no spiritual life without a new birth - no heaven without a new heart.
"A humble and prayerful person will find a thousand things in the Bible, which the proud student will utterly fail to discern." ~ J.C. Ryle
Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible-reading.
Never be satisfied with the world's standard of Christianity!
Until we give God our heart, we give Him nothing at all.
We should no more tolerate false doctrine that we would tolerate sin.
There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.
Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for being proud. Ignorance and inexperience are the pedestal of pride; once the pedestal is removed - pride will soon come down.
Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.
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.
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.
The Christian who keeps his heart diligently in little things shall be kept from great falls.
Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
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