Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.
JOHN BUNYANWherefore, though the Christian, as a Christian, is the only man at liberty, as called thereunto of God; yet his liberty is limited to things that are good: he is not licensed thereby to indulge the flesh.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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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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To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.
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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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I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.
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He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
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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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I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.
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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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A man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.
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Humility is the light of the understanding.
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Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth.
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Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.
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And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth!
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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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Prayer is a shield to the soul.
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