God, as I may say, is forced to break men’s hearts, before he can make them willing to cry to him, or be willing that he should have any concerns with them; the rest shut their eyes, stop their ears, withdraw their hearts, or say unto God, Be gone.
JOHN BUNYANPray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.
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Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.
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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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You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
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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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I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.
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Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other’s roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.
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I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.
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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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The same yesterday, today, and forever.
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To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.
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I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up.
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Hope is never ill when faith is well.
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Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.
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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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