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The best prayers have often more groans than words.

John Bunyan

Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.
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Better Deal God Greatness Man Prayer Reading
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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Affect Enough Greatness Knowledge Learning Possible
I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.
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Earth God Hear Love Myself
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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Awake Heart Time Wake Up
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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Country Growth Tree Winter
No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.
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Man Scripture Temptation Trial Understand
There can be but one will the master in our salvation, but that shall never be the will of man, but of God; therefore man must be saved by grace.
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Grace Master Save Willing
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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Constant Pilgrimage True
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
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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Fire Force Hell Power Recover Soul Strength World
You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
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Day Generosity Kindness Live Yourself
I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.
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Conscience Day End Stay
The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.
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Man Religion Throw World
I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up.
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Finding God Hard Prayer Swallow
Humility is the light of understanding.
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Humility Light Understand
I live because I am a Warrior and because I wish one day to be in the company of [She] for whom I have fought so hard
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Company Finding Herself Live Warrior
Prayer is an ordinance of God, that must continue with a soul so long as it is on this side glory.
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Glory God Order Prayer Soul
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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Bottle Community Eyes God Love Tears
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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Day Judgment Result Talk
The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.
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Best Enough Myself Prayer World
Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.
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Bright Cloud Darkness Water
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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Difference Fake Lying Regret True
Doth Jesus Christ stand up to plead for us with God, to plead with him for us against the devil? Let this teach us to stand up to plead for him before men, to plead for him against the enemies of his person and gospel.
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Enemy God Gospel Person Stand Teaching
An idle man’s brain is the devil’s workshop.
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Brain Devil Man Workshop
To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.
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Humble Lost Seek World
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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Each Other Fall Flower Garden Heaven
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

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