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.
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.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.
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Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.
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Men, even the elect, have too many infirmities to come to Christ without help from heaven; inviting will not do.
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No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
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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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To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.
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Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.
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You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
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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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It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be received with the same grace, whether it be given by the poorest of saints or the most educated person.
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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 the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled.
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Our heart often times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.
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In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.
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Without the Spirit man is so infirm that he cannot, with all other means whatsoever, be enabled to think one right saving thought of God, of Christ, or of his blessed things.
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