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No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.

John Bunyan

I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.
JOHN BUNYAN

Degree Destruction Myself Stupidity
If you release me today, I’ll preach tomorrow.
JOHN BUNYAN

Myself Preach Release
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
The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.
JOHN BUNYAN

Beat Bruise Heart Hurt Willing
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.
JOHN BUNYAN

Enemy God Gospel Person Stand Teaching
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.
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Appearance Grace Greatness Guilty
Be of good cheer, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole.
JOHN BUNYAN

Goodness Whole
If you are not a praying person, you are not a Christian.
JOHN BUNYAN

Person Prayer Religious Yourself
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.
JOHN BUNYAN

Finding Myself See Temptation Time
Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.
JOHN BUNYAN

Bright Cloud Darkness Water
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.
JOHN BUNYAN

Burn Heart Known Learning Prayer Truth
The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.
JOHN BUNYAN

God Separate Wheat
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.
JOHN BUNYAN

Education Life Person Poor Pride
A saint abroad, and a devil at home.
JOHN BUNYAN

Devil Home Saint
At the day of Doom men shall be judged according to their fruits. It will not be said then, did you believe? But, were you doers or talkers only?
JOHN BUNYAN

Day Judgment Result Talk
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.
JOHN BUNYAN

Creation Himself Ignorance Sin Visible

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