To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.
JOHN BUNYANThe Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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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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You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
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A man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.
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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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He that is down needs fear no fall. He that is low, no pride; He that is humble, ever shall have God to be his Guide.
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To run and work the law commands, but gives us neither feet nor hands. But better news the gospel brings, it bids us fly and gives us wings.
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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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Humility is the light of understanding.
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Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.
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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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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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In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.
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He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.
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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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He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.
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