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.
JOHN BUNYANIn all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
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It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled.
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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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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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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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The best prayers have often more groans than words.
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Though 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.
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I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.
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I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.
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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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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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He that is down needs fear no fall.
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A tender heart is a wakeful, watchful heart. It watches against sin in the soul, sin in the family, sin in the calling, sin in spiritual duties and performances.
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The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.
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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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