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An idle man’s brain is the devil’s workshop.

John Bunyan

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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Faith Hear Profit Spirit
Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.
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Man Sleep Sweet
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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Finding Myself See Temptation Time
And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth!
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Earth Greatness Mystery Name Sin World
I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.
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Conscience Day End Stay
The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver.
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Gold Prayer Precious Silver Spirit Treasure
The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.
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Difference Fake Lying Regret True
He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.
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Forget Friendship Gratitude Himself Mercy
There hath not one tear dropped from thy tender eye against thy lusts, the love of this world, or for more communion with Jesus Christ, but as it is now in the bottle of God.
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Bottle Community Eyes God Love Tears
The reason why the Christians in this day are at such a loss as to some things is that they are contented with what comes from man’s mouth, without searching and kneeling before God to know of Him the truth of things.
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Day Himself Loss Man Reason Search Truth
What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.
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Best God World
Nothing 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.
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Burden Easy Load Sin Support Yourself
Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.
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Affection God Prayer Promise Sensible Sincere
Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.
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God Ourselves Personal Sin
Prayer is an ordinance of God, that must continue with a soul so long as it is on this side glory.
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Glory God Order Prayer Soul
The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.
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Law Man Nature Sin

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