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I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up.

John Bunyan

His love is what makes us live, love, sing, and praise forever.
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Forever Live Love Praise
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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Exception God Hope Prayer Right
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
One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
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Destroy Oneself Sink
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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Earth Greatness Mystery Name Sin World
If my life is fruitless, it doesn’t matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn’t matter who criticizes me.
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Criticism Inspirational Life Praise Wasted
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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Better Command Law News Run Wings Work
Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.
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Beat Experiment Heart Known
I preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.
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Chain Deliver Freedom Myself Preach
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.
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Blessing Himself Man Save Thinking
Great sins do draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ, when showed to the soul, appears most high and mighty.
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Appearance Grace Greatness Guilty
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
An idle man’s brain is the devil’s workshop.
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Brain Devil Man Workshop
Sincerity carries the soul in all simplicity to open its heart to God.
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Carry God Heart Open Simplicity Sincere Soul
Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.
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Gate Heaven Hell Way
I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.
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Devotion God Obedience Prison Stay

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