Without the Spirit man is so infirm that he cannot, with all other means whatsoever, be enabled to think one right saving thought of God, of Christ, or of his blessed things.
JOHN BUNYANThen I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
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I am content with what I have, little be it, or much.
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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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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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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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He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.
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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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The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end.
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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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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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Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.
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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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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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And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth!
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To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.
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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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Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.
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Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.
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Riches and power, what is there more in the world? For money answereth all things-that is, all but soul concerns. It can neither be a price for souls while here, nor can that, with all the forces of strength, recover one out of hell fire.
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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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Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.
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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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Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
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Prayer is a shield to the soul.
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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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I live because I am a Warrior and because I wish one day to be in the company of [She] for whom I have fought so hard
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