I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.
JOHN BUNYANHumility is the light of the understanding.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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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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The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.
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For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.
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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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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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I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up.
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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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Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.
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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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I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.
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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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Who would true valour see, Let him come hither; One here will constant be, Come wind, come weather There’s no discouragement Shall make him once relent His first avowed intent To be a pilgrim.
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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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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.
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