Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.
JOHN BUNYANDark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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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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In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.
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Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.
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Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
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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.
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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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See how ye Pharisee in the Temple stands, And justifies himself with lifted hands. Whilst ye poor publican with downcast eyes, Conscious of guilt to God for mercy cries.
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If you are not a praying person, you are not a Christian.
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I preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.
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No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
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If thou hast sinned, lie not down without repentance; for the want of repentance, after one has sinned, makes the heart yet harder and harder.
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Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.
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The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver.
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Our heart often times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.
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The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction.
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The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end.
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Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.
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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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The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.
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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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Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!
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There is no way to kill a man’s righteousness but by his own consent.
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Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
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Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.
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It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be received with the same grace, whether it be given by the poorest of saints or the most educated person.
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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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