I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up.
JOHN BUNYANSincerity carries the soul in all simplicity to open its heart to God.
More John Bunyan Quotes
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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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It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be received with the same grace, whether it be given by the poorest of saints or the most educated person.
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No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
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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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Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
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This hill though high I covent ascend; The difficulty will not me offend; For I perceive the way of life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let’s neither faint nor fear.
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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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The more he cast away, the more he had.
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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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There is no way to kill a man’s righteousness but by his own consent.
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Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.
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Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.
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In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies.
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His love is what makes us live, love, sing, and praise forever.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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