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.
JOHN BUNYANThe heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.
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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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The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.
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To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.
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Doth Jesus Christ stand up to plead for us with God, to plead with him for us against the devil? Let this teach us to stand up to plead for him before men, to plead for him against the enemies of his person and gospel.
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Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.
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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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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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An idle man’s brain is the devil’s workshop.
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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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I preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.
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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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No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
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Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.
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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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I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.
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