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I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.

John Bunyan

For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.
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Profit Talk Time Truth
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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Finding Myself See Temptation Time
It is easier going out of the way when we are in, than going in when we are out.
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Choice Easy Path Way
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
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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Book Destroy Place Reading Safety Seek
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
Without the Spirit man is so infirm that he cannot, with all other means whatsoever, be enabled to think one right saving thought of God, of Christ, or of his blessed things.
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Blessing Himself Man Save Thinking
No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.
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Man Scripture Temptation Trial Understand
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
I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.
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Best Finding Thinking Time
A man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.
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Count Himself Madness Man
Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.
JOHN BUNYAN

God Ourselves Personal Sin
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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Better Heart Prayer Word
I live because I am a Warrior and because I wish one day to be in the company of [She] for whom I have fought so hard
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Company Finding Herself Live Warrior
In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.
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Experience God Sweet Time
No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
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Children Degree Forgiveness God Sin
Nae man can tether time nor tide.
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Change Man One Liner Time
Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.
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Easy Hit Mark Oneself Understand Word
Sincerity carries the soul in all simplicity to open its heart to God.
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Carry God Heart Open Simplicity Sincere Soul
He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.
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Day God Himself Morning Run
The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end.
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Beginning Fear God Wisdom
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
I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.
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Conscience Day End Stay
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?
JOHN BUNYAN

Faith Hang Himself
Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.
JOHN BUNYAN

Better Deal God Greatness Man Prayer Reading
Wherefore, 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.
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Goodness Liberty License Limitation Man
You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
JOHN BUNYAN

Day Generosity Kindness Live Yourself

I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.

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