I seek a place that can never be destroyed, one that is pure, and that fadeth not away, and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there, to be given, at the time appointed, to them that seek it with all their heart. Read it so, if you will, in my book.
JOHN BUNYANMen, even the elect, have too many infirmities to come to Christ without help from heaven; inviting will not do.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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Humility is the light of the understanding.
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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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The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.
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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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Doth Jesus Christ stand up to plead for us with God, to plead with him for us against the devil? Let this teach us to stand up to plead for him before men, to plead for him against the enemies of his person and gospel.
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He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.
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He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.
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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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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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Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.
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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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I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up.
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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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Nae man can tether time nor tide.
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Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.
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