Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.
JOHN BUNYANTemptation provokes me to look upward to God.
JOHN BUNYANI come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.
JOHN BUNYANRun when I can, walk when I cannot run, and creep when I cannot walk.
JOHN BUNYANYou 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.
JOHN BUNYANIn prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
JOHN BUNYANOur sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.
JOHN BUNYANThe more he cast away, the more he had.
JOHN BUNYANAt 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?
JOHN BUNYANI 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.
JOHN BUNYANThe man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.
JOHN BUNYANHe who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
JOHN BUNYANWherefore, 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.
JOHN BUNYANDoth 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.
JOHN BUNYANFor 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.
JOHN BUNYANGod, 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 BUNYANChristians 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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