You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.
JOHN BUNYANThe reason why the Christians in this day are at such a loss as to some things is that they are contented with what comes from man’s mouth, without searching and kneeling before God to know of Him the truth of things.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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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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Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.
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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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The same yesterday, today, and forever.
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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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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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Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
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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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It is easier going out of the way when we are in, than going in when we are out.
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Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.
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There is no way to kill a man’s righteousness but by his own consent.
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I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.
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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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Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.
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Sincerity carries the soul in all simplicity to open its heart to God.
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