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.
JOHN BUNYANGreat 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.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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The same yesterday, today, and forever.
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An idle man’s brain is the devil’s workshop.
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I am content with what I have, little be it, or much.
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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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I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.
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The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.
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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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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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He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.
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The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction.
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To run and work the law commands, but gives us neither feet nor hands. But better news the gospel brings, it bids us fly and gives us wings.
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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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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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The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
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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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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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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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Wherefore, though the Christian, as a Christian, is the only man at liberty, as called thereunto of God; yet his liberty is limited to things that are good: he is not licensed thereby to indulge the flesh.
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No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.
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Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.
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No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
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A man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.
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Humility is the light of 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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He that is down needs fear no fall. He that is low, no pride; He that is humble, ever shall have God to be his Guide.
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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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