The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.
JOHN BUNYANThough there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.
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I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.
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No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.
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The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
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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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God, as I may say, is forced to break men’s hearts, before he can make them willing to cry to him, or be willing that he should have any concerns with them; the rest shut their eyes, stop their ears, withdraw their hearts, or say unto God, Be gone.
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Though the world disregard the society of God’s children now, yet there is a time coming in which they would be glad to have the least company with them.
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Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.
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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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Prayer is a shield to the soul.
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The best prayers have often more groans than words.
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I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up.
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The reason why the Christians in this day are at such a loss as to some things is that they are contented with what comes from man’s mouth, without searching and kneeling before God to know of Him the truth of things.
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The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.
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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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