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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.

John Bunyan

Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.
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God Provoke Temptation
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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Day Himself Loss Man Reason Search Truth
Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth.
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Beautiful Earth Live Love Ourselves Pleasure
Men, even the elect, have too many infirmities to come to Christ without help from heaven; inviting will not do.
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God Heaven Invitation Man Willing
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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Affect Enough Greatness Knowledge Learning Possible
I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?
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Faith Hang Himself
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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Faith Hear Profit Spirit
The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end.
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Beginning Fear God Wisdom
It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.
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Beginning Call Grace Mindset Profit Soul
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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Creation Himself Ignorance Sin Visible
Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.
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Bright Cloud Darkness Water
Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other’s roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.
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Each Other Fall Flower Garden Heaven
He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.
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Forget Friendship Gratitude Himself Mercy
I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.
JOHN BUNYAN

Best Finding Thinking Time
No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.
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Man Scripture Temptation Trial Understand
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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Comfortable Gold Mindset Quiet

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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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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