He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.
JOHN BUNYANI love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up.
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A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.
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Run when I can, walk when I cannot run, and creep when I cannot walk.
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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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The more he cast away, the more he had.
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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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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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Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.
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To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.
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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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There is no way to kill a man’s righteousness but by his own consent.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction.
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He that is down needs fear no fall. He that is low, no pride; He that is humble, ever shall have God to be his Guide.
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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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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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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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Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.
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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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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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I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.
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Humility is the light of understanding.
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The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end.
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Be of good cheer, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole.
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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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It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be received with the same grace, whether it be given by the poorest of saints or the most educated person.
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