Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
JOHN BUNYANHe that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.
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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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The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver.
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To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.
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To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.
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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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Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.
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The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.
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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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The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.
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Men, even the elect, have too many infirmities to come to Christ without help from heaven; inviting will not do.
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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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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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Be of good cheer, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole.
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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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I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.
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