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

John Bunyan

You have chosen the roughest road, but it leads straight to the hilltops.
JOHN BUNYAN

Choice Hard Time Inspirational Road Rough
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
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.
JOHN BUNYAN

Fear God Grace Hell
Run when I can, walk when I cannot run, and creep when I cannot walk.
JOHN BUNYAN

Effort Myself Run Walk
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.
JOHN BUNYAN

Blessing Himself Man Save Thinking
The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.
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Best Enough Myself Prayer World
Hope is never ill when faith is well.
JOHN BUNYAN

Faith Hope Well
Sincerity carries the soul in all simplicity to open its heart to God.
JOHN BUNYAN

Carry God Heart Open Simplicity Sincere Soul
He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.
JOHN BUNYAN

Forget Friendship Gratitude Himself Mercy
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.
JOHN BUNYAN

Break Eyes Force God Man Willing
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.
JOHN BUNYAN

Awake Heart Time Wake Up
See how ye Pharisee in the Temple stands, And justifies himself with lifted hands. Whilst ye poor publican with downcast eyes, Conscious of guilt to God for mercy cries.
JOHN BUNYAN

Conscious Guilt Hands Stand Temple
He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.
JOHN BUNYAN

Death Himself Life Sorrow
A saint abroad, and a devil at home.
JOHN BUNYAN

Devil Home Saint
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
Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.
JOHN BUNYAN

God Provoke Temptation

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