Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.
JOHN BUNYANI preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.
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The best prayers have often more groans than words.
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I am content with what I have, little be it, or much.
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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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Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.
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The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction.
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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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The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.
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If thou hast sinned, lie not down without repentance; for the want of repentance, after one has sinned, makes the heart yet harder and harder.
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Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.
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Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!
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Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.
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Humility is the light of the understanding.
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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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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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Though it be said that faith cometh by hearing, yet it is the Spirit that worketh faith in the heart through hearing, or else they are not profited by hearing.
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God, 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.
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Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.
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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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It is easier going out of the way when we are in, than going in when we are out.
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The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.
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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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I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.
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The reason why the Christians in this day are at such a loss as to some things is that they are contented with what comes from man’s mouth, without searching and kneeling before God to know of Him the truth of things.
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