Humility is the light of understanding.
JOHN BUNYANTo run and work the law commands, but gives us neither feet nor hands. But better news the gospel brings, it bids us fly and gives us wings.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.
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I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.
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Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.
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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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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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I seek a place that can never be destroyed, one that is pure, and that fadeth not away, and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there, to be given, at the time appointed, to them that seek it with all their heart. Read it so, if you will, in my book.
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Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.
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To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.
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No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
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The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction.
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Men, even the elect, have too many infirmities to come to Christ without help from heaven; inviting will not do.
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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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Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.
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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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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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