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.
JOHN BUNYANHope is never ill when faith is well.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.
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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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Humility is the light of understanding.
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Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.
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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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The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver.
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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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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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God, as I may say, is forced to break men’s hearts, before he can make them willing to cry to him, or be willing that he should have any concerns with them; the rest shut their eyes, stop their ears, withdraw their hearts, or say unto God, Be gone.
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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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There is no way to kill a man’s righteousness but by his own consent.
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Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.
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The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
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If you are not a praying person, you are not a Christian.
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A saint abroad, and a devil at home.
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