I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up.
JOHN BUNYANThe spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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He that is down needs fear no fall. He that is low, no pride; He that is humble, ever shall have God to be his Guide.
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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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An idle man’s brain is the devil’s workshop.
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The same yesterday, today, and forever.
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This hill though high I covent ascend; The difficulty will not me offend; For I perceive the way of life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let’s neither faint nor fear.
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Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth.
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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 preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.
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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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Riches and power, what is there more in the world? For money answereth all things-that is, all but soul concerns. It can neither be a price for souls while here, nor can that, with all the forces of strength, recover one out of hell fire.
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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 man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.
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What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.
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Though the world disregard the society of God’s children now, yet there is a time coming in which they would be glad to have the least company with them.
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We know not the matter of the things for which we should pray, neither the object to whom we pray, nor the medium by or through whom we pray; none of these things know we, but by the help and assistance of the Spirit.
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