I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.
JOHN BUNYANMan 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.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.
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Prayer is a shield to the soul.
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I seek a place that can never be destroyed, one that is pure, and that fadeth not away, and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there, to be given, at the time appointed, to them that seek it with all their heart. Read it so, if you will, in my book.
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The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end.
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It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled.
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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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There hath not one tear dropped from thy tender eye against thy lusts, the love of this world, or for more communion with Jesus Christ, but as it is now in the bottle of God.
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In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies.
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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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He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.
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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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Be of good cheer, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole.
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One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
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Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.
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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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