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Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.

John Bunyan

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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God Prayer Sacrifice Satan Soul
To run and work the law commands, but gives us neither feet nor hands. But better news the gospel brings, it bids us fly and gives us wings.
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Better Command Law News Run Wings Work
A saint abroad, and a devil at home.
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Devil Home Saint
Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
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Man Prayer Sin
Nae man can tether time nor tide.
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Change Man One Liner Time
I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.
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Devotion God Obedience Prison Stay
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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Beat Experiment Heart Known
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
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
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
A man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.
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Count Himself Madness Man
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
See how ye Pharisee in the Temple stands, And justifies himself with lifted hands. Whilst ye poor publican with downcast eyes, Conscious of guilt to God for mercy cries.
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Conscious Guilt Hands Stand Temple
This hill though high I covent ascend; The difficulty will not me offend; For I perceive the way of life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let’s neither faint nor fear.
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Difficult Faint Fear Heart Life Offend
Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.
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Creation Himself Ignorance Sin Visible
Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.
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Deep Heaven Old Truth

Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.

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