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.
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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The best prayers have often more groans than words.
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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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I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up.
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Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
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I preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.
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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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The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end.
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In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies.
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He that is down needs fear no fall.
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You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
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There is no way to kill a man’s righteousness but by his own consent.
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The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.
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Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.
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The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver.
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Hope is never ill when faith is well.
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