The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.
JOHN BUNYANWords easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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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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It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.
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I live because I am a Warrior and because I wish one day to be in the company of [She] for whom I have fought so hard
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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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If thou hast sinned, lie not down without repentance; for the want of repentance, after one has sinned, makes the heart yet harder and harder.
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A tender heart is a wakeful, watchful heart. It watches against sin in the soul, sin in the family, sin in the calling, sin in spiritual duties and performances.
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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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As your faith is, such your hope will be. Hope is never ill when faith is well, nor strong if faith be weak.
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To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.
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There hath not one tear dropped from thy tender eye against thy lusts, the love of this world, or for more communion with Jesus Christ, but as it is now in the bottle of God.
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I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City 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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If you release me today, I’ll preach tomorrow.
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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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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.
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