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.
JOHN BUNYANThe 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.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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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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If you release me today, I’ll preach tomorrow.
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Our heart often times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.
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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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I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up.
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The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.
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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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He that is down needs fear no fall.
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You have chosen the roughest road, but it leads straight to the hilltops.
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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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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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The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.
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He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.
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If thou hast sinned, lie not down without repentance; for the want of repentance, after one has sinned, makes the heart yet harder and harder.
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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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