If my life is fruitless, it doesn’t matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn’t matter who criticizes me.
JOHN BUNYANChrist is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!
More John Bunyan Quotes
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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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For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.
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No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.
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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.
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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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The more he cast away, the more he had.
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He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.
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The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.
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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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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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Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.
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If you are not a praying person, you are not a Christian.
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It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.
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Nae man can tether time nor tide.
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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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