As your faith is, such your hope will be. Hope is never ill when faith is well, nor strong if faith be weak.
JOHN BUNYANNothing 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.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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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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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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Run when I can, walk when I cannot run, and creep when I cannot walk.
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Men, even the elect, have too many infirmities to come to Christ without help from heaven; inviting will not do.
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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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Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.
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Humility is the light of understanding.
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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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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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Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.
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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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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 that is down needs fear no fall.
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Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.
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I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.
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