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.
JOHN BUNYANGod, 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.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.
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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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Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.
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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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Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.
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A saint abroad, and a devil at home.
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He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.
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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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Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
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Humility is the light of the understanding.
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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 preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.
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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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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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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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