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The 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.

John Bunyan

Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.
JOHN BUNYAN

Better Grace Greatness
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.
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Burden Easy Load Sin Support Yourself
If you release me today, I’ll preach tomorrow.
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Myself Preach Release
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
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Comfortable Gold Mindset Quiet
A man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.
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Count Himself Madness Man
No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.
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Man Scripture Temptation Trial Understand
To 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.
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Better Command Law News Run Wings Work
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
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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Constant Pilgrimage True
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
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
The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.
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Best Enough Myself Prayer World
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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Angel Desire Forever Joy Nation
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?
JOHN BUNYAN

Faith Hang Himself
Sincerity carries the soul in all simplicity to open its heart to God.
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Carry God Heart Open Simplicity Sincere Soul
Run when I can, walk when I cannot run, and creep when I cannot walk.
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Effort Myself Run Walk
No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
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Children Degree Forgiveness God Sin
A saint abroad, and a devil at home.
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Devil Home Saint
Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.
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God Provoke Temptation
Nae man can tether time nor tide.
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Change Man One Liner Time
He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
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Goodness Poor Time
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.
JOHN BUNYAN

Hard Lying Regret Sin
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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Earth God Hear Love Myself
Prayer is a shield to the soul.
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Prayer Protection Soul
You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.
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God Prayer Sacrifice Satan Soul
Humility is the light of the understanding.
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Humility Light One Liner Understand
Great sins do draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ, when showed to the soul, appears most high and mighty.
JOHN BUNYAN

Appearance Grace Greatness Guilty

The 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.

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The 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.

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