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Humility is the light of understanding.

John Bunyan

He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.
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Happiness Himself Live Sin
Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.
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Gate Heaven Hell Way
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
There is no way to kill a man’s righteousness but by his own consent.
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Consent Kill Man Right
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?
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Faith Hang Himself
Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
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God Prayer Sacrifice Satan Shield Soul
Humility is the light of understanding.
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Humility Light Understand
Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.
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Beat Experiment Heart Known
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
In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.
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Experience God Sweet Time
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
The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.
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Man Religion Throw World
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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Bottle Community Eyes God Love Tears
A saint abroad, and a devil at home.
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Devil Home Saint
To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.
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Humble Lost Seek World
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

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