The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.
JOHN BUNYANIf you release me today, I’ll preach tomorrow.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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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 greatness of God, of the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, is that, if rightly considered, which will support the spirits of those of his people that are frighted with the greatness of their adversaries.
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Though it be said that faith cometh by hearing, yet it is the Spirit that worketh faith in the heart through hearing, or else they are not profited by hearing.
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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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At the day of Doom men shall be judged according to their fruits. It will not be said then, did you believe? But, were you doers or talkers only?
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If my life is fruitless, it doesn’t matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn’t matter who criticizes me.
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Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other’s roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.
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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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As your faith is, such your hope will be. Hope is never ill when faith is well, nor strong if faith be weak.
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You have chosen the roughest road, but it leads straight to the hilltops.
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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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One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
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An idle man’s brain is the devil’s workshop.
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Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
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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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