See how ye Pharisee in the Temple stands, And justifies himself with lifted hands. Whilst ye poor publican with downcast eyes, Conscious of guilt to God for mercy cries.
JOHN BUNYANNothing 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.
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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If you are not a praying person, you are not a Christian.
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His love is what makes us live, love, sing, and praise forever.
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An idle man’s brain is the devil’s workshop.
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The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.
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If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself, they won’t do whatever they want, they’ll do whatever He wants.
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Hope is never ill when faith is well.
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And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth!
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No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
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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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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 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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There is no way to kill a man’s righteousness but by his own consent.
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The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.
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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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There can be but one will the master in our salvation, but that shall never be the will of man, but of God; therefore man must be saved by grace.
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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 found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up.
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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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The best prayers have often more groans than words.
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Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
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The more he cast away, the more he had.
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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.
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A man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.
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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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Humility is the light of the understanding.
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