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.
JOHN BUNYANOld truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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Hope is never ill when faith is well.
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The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.
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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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It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.
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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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He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
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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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If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself, they won’t do whatever they want, they’ll do whatever He wants.
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It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.
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Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.
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You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
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Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.
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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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He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.
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Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.
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