I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.
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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A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.
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The best prayers have often more groans than words.
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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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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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Christ 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!
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There can be but one will the master in our salvation, but that shall never be the will of man, but of God; therefore man must be saved by grace.
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He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
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It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be received with the same grace, whether it be given by the poorest of saints or the most educated person.
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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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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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Hope is never ill when faith is well.
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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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The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.
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The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
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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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Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
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I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.
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What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.
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He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.
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Prayer is a shield to the soul.
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Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.
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The same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.
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Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.
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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 am content with what I have, little be it, or much.
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