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.
JOHN BUNYANWithout 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.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.
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Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.
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If you are not a praying person, you are not a Christian.
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I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up.
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Nae man can tether time nor tide.
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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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A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.
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He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.
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Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.
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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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A saint abroad, and a devil at home.
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In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies.
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There hath not one tear dropped from thy tender eye against thy lusts, the love of this world, or for more communion with Jesus Christ, but as it is now in the bottle of God.
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He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
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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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