I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up.
JOHN BUNYANThe Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.
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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Prayer is an ordinance of God, that must continue with a soul so long as it is on this side glory.
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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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The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.
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In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.
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You have chosen the roughest road, but it leads straight to the hilltops.
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Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.
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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.
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The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction.
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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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And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth!
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He that is down needs fear no fall.
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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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It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled.
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Who would true valour see, Let him come hither; One here will constant be, Come wind, come weather There’s no discouragement Shall make him once relent His first avowed intent To be a pilgrim.
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