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.
JOHN BUNYANThe man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.
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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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I preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.
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An idle man’s brain is the devil’s workshop.
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The best prayers have often more groans than words.
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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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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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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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Wherefore, though the Christian, as a Christian, is the only man at liberty, as called thereunto of God; yet his liberty is limited to things that are good: he is not licensed thereby to indulge the flesh.
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To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.
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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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No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
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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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I am content with what I have, little be it, or much.
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It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled.
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