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.
JOHN BUNYANA saint abroad, and a devil at home.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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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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Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
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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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He that is down needs fear no fall.
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The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction.
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There is no way to kill a man’s righteousness but by his own consent.
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Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.
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No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.
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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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The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.
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Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other’s roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.
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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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If thou hast sinned, lie not down without repentance; for the want of repentance, after one has sinned, makes the heart yet harder and harder.
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Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.
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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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