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Humility is the light of understanding.

John Bunyan

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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Assistance Help Medium Object Prayer
Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.
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Man Sleep Sweet
It is easier going out of the way when we are in, than going in when we are out.
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Choice Easy Path Way
Doth Jesus Christ stand up to plead for us with God, to plead with him for us against the devil? Let this teach us to stand up to plead for him before men, to plead for him against the enemies of his person and gospel.
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Enemy God Gospel Person Stand Teaching
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
The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.
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Best Enough Myself Prayer World
Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.
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Deep Heaven Old Truth
He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.
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Day God Himself Morning Run
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 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
I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.
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Devotion God Obedience Prison Stay
A saint abroad, and a devil at home.
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Devil Home Saint
Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
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Man Prayer Sin
No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.
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Man Scripture Temptation Trial Understand
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
He that is down needs fear no fall.
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Fall Fear Himself Need

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