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 BUNYANPray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
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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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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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You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
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You have chosen the roughest road, but it leads straight to the hilltops.
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His love is what makes us live, love, sing, and praise forever.
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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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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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The more he cast away, the more he had.
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The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.
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Be of good cheer, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole.
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And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth!
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The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.
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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 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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An idle man’s brain is the devil’s workshop.
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