Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.
JOHN BUNYANAfflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.
JOHN BUNYANSincerity carries the soul in all simplicity to open its heart to God.
JOHN BUNYANPrayer is a shield to the soul.
JOHN BUNYANPray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.
JOHN BUNYANNothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.
JOHN BUNYANThe Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.
JOHN BUNYANOur sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.
JOHN BUNYANIt is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled.
JOHN BUNYANChristians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other’s roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.
JOHN BUNYANHe that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.
JOHN BUNYANI have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?
JOHN BUNYANThen I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.
JOHN BUNYANAs your faith is, such your hope will be. Hope is never ill when faith is well, nor strong if faith be weak.
JOHN BUNYANYou have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
JOHN BUNYANIt is easier going out of the way when we are in, than going in when we are out.
JOHN BUNYANWherefore, though the Christian, as a Christian, is the only man at liberty, as called thereunto of God; yet his liberty is limited to things that are good: he is not licensed thereby to indulge the flesh.
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