To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.
JOHN BUNYANRiches and power, what is there more in the world? For money answereth all things-that is, all but soul concerns. It can neither be a price for souls while here, nor can that, with all the forces of strength, recover one out of hell fire.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.
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He that is down needs fear no fall.
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Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.
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For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.
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Though the world disregard the society of God’s children now, yet there is a time coming in which they would be glad to have the least company with them.
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A saint abroad, and a devil at home.
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To run and work the law commands, but gives us neither feet nor hands. But better news the gospel brings, it bids us fly and gives us wings.
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Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.
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Great sins do draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ, when showed to the soul, appears most high and mighty.
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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 who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
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In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies.
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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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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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Be of good cheer, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole.
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