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.
JOHN BUNYANTo pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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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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It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.
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Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.
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The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.
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If you release me today, I’ll preach tomorrow.
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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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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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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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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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Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.
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Hope is never ill when faith is well.
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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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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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If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
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Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.
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