I seek a place that can never be destroyed, one that is pure, and that fadeth not away, and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there, to be given, at the time appointed, to them that seek it with all their heart. Read it so, if you will, in my book.
JOHN BUNYANHe that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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The same yesterday, today, and forever.
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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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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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I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?
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One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
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Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.
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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 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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Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth.
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I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.
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The greatness of God, of the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, is that, if rightly considered, which will support the spirits of those of his people that are frighted with the greatness of their adversaries.
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It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.
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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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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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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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