A tender heart is a wakeful, watchful heart. It watches against sin in the soul, sin in the family, sin in the calling, sin in spiritual duties and performances.
JOHN BUNYANThe 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.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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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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The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.
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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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Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth.
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Run when I can, walk when I cannot run, and creep when I cannot walk.
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No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.
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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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He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.
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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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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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The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver.
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Without the Spirit man is so infirm that he cannot, with all other means whatsoever, be enabled to think one right saving thought of God, of Christ, or of his blessed things.
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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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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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Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.
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