God, as I may say, is forced to break men’s hearts, before he can make them willing to cry to him, or be willing that he should have any concerns with them; the rest shut their eyes, stop their ears, withdraw their hearts, or say unto God, Be gone.
JOHN BUNYANTo pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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Though it be said that faith cometh by hearing, yet it is the Spirit that worketh faith in the heart through hearing, or else they are not profited by hearing.
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He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.
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Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.
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Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.
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Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
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Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.
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We know not the matter of the things for which we should pray, neither the object to whom we pray, nor the medium by or through whom we pray; none of these things know we, but by the help and assistance of the Spirit.
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Prayer is a shield to the soul.
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No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.
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The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction.
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Humility is the light of understanding.
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Though the world disregard the society of God’s children now, yet there is a time coming in which they would be glad to have the least company with them.
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Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.
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In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies.
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Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.
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