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Humility is the light of understanding.

John Bunyan

Though it be said that faith cometh by hearing, yet it is the Spirit that worketh faith in the heart through hearing, or else they are not profited by hearing.
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Faith Hear Profit Spirit
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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Awake Heart Time Wake Up
If you are not a praying person, you are not a Christian.
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Person Prayer Religious Yourself
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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Defeat Exception Guard Hurt Man
Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.
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Gate Heaven Hell Way
The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.
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Beat Bruise Heart Hurt Willing
Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.
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Better Grace Greatness
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.
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Conscious Guilt Hands Stand Temple
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
This hill though high I covent ascend; The difficulty will not me offend; For I perceive the way of life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let’s neither faint nor fear.
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Difficult Faint Fear Heart Life Offend
Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth.
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Beautiful Earth Live Love Ourselves Pleasure
He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
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Goodness Poor Time
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.
JOHN BUNYAN

Assistance Help Medium Object Prayer
Humility is the light of understanding.
JOHN BUNYAN

Humility Light Understand
He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.
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Forget Friendship Gratitude Himself Mercy
The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.
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God Separate Wheat

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