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Prayer is an ordinance of God, that must continue with a soul so long as it is on this side glory.

John Bunyan

No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.
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Man Scripture Temptation Trial Understand
Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.
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God Resistance Word
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
Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.
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God Provoke Temptation
It is easier going out of the way when we are in, than going in when we are out.
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Choice Easy Path Way
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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Assistance Help Medium Object Prayer
You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.
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God Prayer Sacrifice Satan Soul
Hope is never ill when faith is well.
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Faith Hope Well
Run when I can, walk when I cannot run, and creep when I cannot walk.
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Effort Myself Run Walk
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
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Comfortable Gold Mindset Quiet
To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.
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Exception God Hope Prayer Right
It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be received with the same grace, whether it be given by the poorest of saints or the most educated person.
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Education Life Person Poor Pride
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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Burden Easy Load Sin Support Yourself
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
Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth.
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Beautiful Earth Live Love Ourselves Pleasure
Great sins do draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ, when showed to the soul, appears most high and mighty.
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Appearance Grace Greatness Guilty
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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Enjoyment Finding Heaven World
In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies.
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Forget Mercy Prayer Thankful
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
If my life is fruitless, it doesn’t matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn’t matter who criticizes me.
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Criticism Inspirational Life Praise Wasted
The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.
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Beat Bruise Heart Hurt Willing
It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled.
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Empty Fill God Heart Open
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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Profit Talk Time Truth
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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Company God Happiness Society World
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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Defeat Exception Guard Hurt Man
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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Himself People Punishment Remove
I seek a place that can never be destroyed, one that is pure, and that fadeth not away, and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there, to be given, at the time appointed, to them that seek it with all their heart. Read it so, if you will, in my book.
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Book Destroy Place Reading Safety Seek

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