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.
JOHN BUNYANGreat grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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Be of good cheer, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole.
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To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.
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The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver.
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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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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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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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He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.
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You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.
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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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Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.
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Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.
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In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.
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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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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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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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