In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.
JOHN BUNYANTo seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.
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Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.
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He that is down needs fear no fall.
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I am content with what I have, little be it, or much.
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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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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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He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
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Who would true valour see, Let him come hither; One here will constant be, Come wind, come weather There’s no discouragement Shall make him once relent His first avowed intent To be a pilgrim.
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I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.
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I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.
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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 heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.
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He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.
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Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.
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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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He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.
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The best prayers have often more groans than words.
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If my life is fruitless, it doesn’t matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn’t matter who criticizes me.
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One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
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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 come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.
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I live because I am a Warrior and because I wish one day to be in the company of [She] for whom I have fought so hard
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Sincerity carries the soul in all simplicity to open its heart to God.
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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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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 fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end.
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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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