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Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.

John Bunyan

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
Doth Jesus Christ stand up to plead for us with God, to plead with him for us against the devil? Let this teach us to stand up to plead for him before men, to plead for him against the enemies of his person and gospel.
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Enemy God Gospel Person Stand Teaching
Great sins do draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ, when showed to the soul, appears most high and mighty.
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Appearance Grace Greatness Guilty
And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth!
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Earth Greatness Mystery Name Sin World
What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.
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Best God World
Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.
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Bright Cloud Darkness Water
Prayer is a shield to the soul.
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Prayer Protection Soul
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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Faith Hear Profit Spirit
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
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
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
He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.
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Forget Friendship Gratitude Himself Mercy
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
Riches and power, what is there more in the world? For money answereth all things-that is, all but soul concerns. It can neither be a price for souls while here, nor can that, with all the forces of strength, recover one out of hell fire.
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Fire Force Hell Power Recover Soul Strength World
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
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Comfortable Gold Mindset Quiet
We know not the matter of the things for which we should pray, neither the object to whom we pray, nor the medium by or through whom we pray; none of these things know we, but by the help and assistance of the Spirit.
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Assistance Help Medium Object Prayer
I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.
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Degree Destruction Myself Stupidity
Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.
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Gate Heaven Hell Way
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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Break Eyes Force God Man Willing
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
Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
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Belief Faith Open Opportunity Yourself
It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.
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Beginning Call Grace Mindset Profit Soul
Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.
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Better Deal God Greatness Man Prayer Reading
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
Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.
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God Provoke Temptation
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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Company God Happiness Society World
The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.
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Man Religion Throw World

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