There is no way to kill a man’s righteousness but by his own consent.
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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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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The best prayers have often more groans than words.
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In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies.
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At the day of Doom men shall be judged according to their fruits. It will not be said then, did you believe? But, were you doers or talkers only?
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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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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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The same yesterday, today, and forever.
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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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Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.
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Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.
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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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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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I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.
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I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?
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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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You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
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Men, even the elect, have too many infirmities to come to Christ without help from heaven; inviting will not do.
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Humility is the light of the understanding.
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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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The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction.
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Though it be said that faith cometh by hearing, yet it is the Spirit that worketh faith in the heart through hearing, or else they are not profited by hearing.
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He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.
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Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.
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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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Without the Spirit man is so infirm that he cannot, with all other means whatsoever, be enabled to think one right saving thought of God, of Christ, or of his blessed things.
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We know not the matter of the things for which we should pray, neither the object to whom we pray, nor the medium by or through whom we pray; none of these things know we, but by the help and assistance of the Spirit.
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