In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.
JOHN BUNYANFor 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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The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction.
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It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled.
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The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.
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He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.
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Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.
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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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Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.
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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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The best prayers have often more groans than words.
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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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He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
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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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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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I preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.
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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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