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I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.

John Bunyan

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
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Man Prayer Sin
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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Difference Fake Lying Regret True
You have chosen the roughest road, but it leads straight to the hilltops.
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Choice Hard Time Inspirational Road Rough
Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.
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Fear God Grace Hell
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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Appearance Grace Greatness Guilty
One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
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Destroy Oneself Sink
As your faith is, such your hope will be. Hope is never ill when faith is well, nor strong if faith be weak.
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Faith Hope Strong Weakness
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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Himself People Punishment Remove
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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Profit Talk Time Truth
Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.
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Easy Hit Mark Oneself Understand Word
An idle man’s brain is the devil’s workshop.
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Brain Devil Man Workshop
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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Creation Himself Ignorance Sin Visible
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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Criticism Inspirational Life Praise Wasted
Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
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Belief Faith Open Opportunity Yourself
Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.
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Better Deal God Greatness Man Prayer Reading
It is easier going out of the way when we are in, than going in when we are out.
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Choice Easy Path Way
He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.
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Death Himself Life Sorrow
I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.
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Degree Destruction Myself Stupidity
Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.
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Deep Heaven Old Truth
Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.
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Gate Heaven Hell Way
It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled.
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Empty Fill God Heart Open
It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be received with the same grace, whether it be given by the poorest of saints or the most educated person.
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Education Life Person Poor Pride
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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Burden Easy Load Sin Support Yourself
Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
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God Prayer Sacrifice Satan Shield Soul
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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Finding Myself See Temptation Time
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.
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Conscious Guilt Hands Stand Temple
The more he cast away, the more he had.
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Let Go One Liner Receive

I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.

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