I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.
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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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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At the day of Doom men shall be judged according to their fruits. It will not be said then, did you believe? But, were you doers or talkers only?
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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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If you are not a praying person, you are not a Christian.
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The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end.
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There is no way to kill a man’s righteousness but by his own consent.
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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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It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be received with the same grace, whether it be given by the poorest of saints or the most educated person.
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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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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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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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I am content with what I have, little be it, or much.
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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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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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The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.
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Sincerity carries the soul in all simplicity to open its heart to God.
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Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.
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The reason why the Christians in this day are at such a loss as to some things is that they are contented with what comes from man’s mouth, without searching and kneeling before God to know of Him the truth of things.
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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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To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.
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The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.
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The best prayers have often more groans than words.
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Humility is the light of the understanding.
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There can be but one will the master in our salvation, but that shall never be the will of man, but of God; therefore man must be saved by grace.
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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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He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.
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