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In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.

John Bunyan

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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Each Other Fall Flower Garden Heaven
An idle man’s brain is the devil’s workshop.
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Brain Devil Man Workshop
One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
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Destroy Oneself Sink
I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up.
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Finding God Hard Prayer Swallow
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.
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Break Eyes Force God Man Willing
Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
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Belief Faith Open Opportunity Yourself
The more he cast away, the more he had.
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Let Go One Liner Receive
The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.
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Law Man Nature Sin
He that is down needs fear no fall.
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Fall Fear Himself Need
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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Glory God Order Prayer Soul
I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?
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Faith Hang Himself
Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.
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Deep Heaven Old Truth
The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end.
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Beginning Fear God Wisdom
He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
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Goodness Poor Time
Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.
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God Ourselves Personal Sin
It is possible to learn all about the mysteries of the Bible and never be affected by it in one’s soul. Great knowledge is not enough.
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Affect Enough Greatness Knowledge Learning Possible
He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.
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Death Himself Life Sorrow
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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Goodness Liberty License Limitation Man
Doth Jesus Christ stand up to plead for us with God, to plead with him for us against the devil? Let this teach us to stand up to plead for him before men, to plead for him against the enemies of his person and gospel.
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Enemy God Gospel Person Stand Teaching
He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.
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Happiness Himself Live Sin
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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Earth Greatness Mystery Name Sin World
Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.
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God Provoke Temptation
Riches and power, what is there more in the world? For money answereth all things-that is, all but soul concerns. It can neither be a price for souls while here, nor can that, with all the forces of strength, recover one out of hell fire.
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Fire Force Hell Power Recover Soul Strength World
There is no way to kill a man’s righteousness but by his own consent.
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Consent Kill Man Right
If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself, they won’t do whatever they want, they’ll do whatever He wants.
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Himself People Punishment Remove
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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Company Finding Herself Live Warrior
We know not the matter of the things for which we should pray, neither the object to whom we pray, nor the medium by or through whom we pray; none of these things know we, but by the help and assistance of the Spirit.
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Assistance Help Medium Object Prayer

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