You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.
JOHN BUNYANOld truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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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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One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
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A saint abroad, and a devil at home.
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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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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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Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth.
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Without the Spirit man is so infirm that he cannot, with all other means whatsoever, be enabled to think one right saving thought of God, of Christ, or of his blessed things.
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A tender heart is a wakeful, watchful heart. It watches against sin in the soul, sin in the family, sin in the calling, sin in spiritual duties and performances.
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The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.
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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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He that is down needs fear no fall.
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If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
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The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
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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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If you are not a praying person, you are not a Christian.
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