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I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up.

John Bunyan

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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Beat Experiment Heart Known
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
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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Each Other Fall Flower Garden Heaven
You have chosen the roughest road, but it leads straight to the hilltops.
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Choice Hard Time Inspirational Road Rough
A saint abroad, and a devil at home.
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Devil Home Saint
Wherefore, though the Christian, as a Christian, is the only man at liberty, as called thereunto of God; yet his liberty is limited to things that are good: he is not licensed thereby to indulge the flesh.
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Goodness Liberty License Limitation Man
Prayer is a shield to the soul.
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Prayer Protection Soul
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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Faith Hear Profit Spirit
One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
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Destroy Oneself Sink
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
It is possible to learn all about the mysteries of the Bible and never be affected by it in one’s soul. Great knowledge is not enough.
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Affect Enough Greatness Knowledge Learning Possible
The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
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Burn Heart Known Learning Prayer Truth
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 is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.
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Beginning Call Grace Mindset Profit Soul
No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
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Children Degree Forgiveness God Sin
A man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.
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Count Himself Madness Man

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