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 BUNYANIt is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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It is possible to learn all about the mysteries of the Bible and never be affected by it in one’s soul. Great knowledge is not enough.
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I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up.
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Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other’s roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.
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To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.
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One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
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A tender heart is a wakeful, watchful heart. It watches against sin in the soul, sin in the family, sin in the calling, sin in spiritual duties and performances.
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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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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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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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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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Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.
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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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The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.
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Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.
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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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