John Bunyan Quotes

You 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.
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God Prayer Sacrifice Satan Soul
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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Affection God Prayer Promise Sensible Sincere
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
Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.
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God Resistance Word
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
God, 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.
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Break Eyes Force God Man Willing
Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
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God Prayer Sacrifice Satan Shield Soul
He that is down needs fear no fall. He that is low, no pride; He that is humble, ever shall have God to be his Guide.
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Fall Fear God Guide Humble Need Pride
Prayer is an ordinance of God, that must continue with a soul so long as it is on this side glory.
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Glory God Order Prayer Soul
Riches and power, what is there more in the world? For money answereth all things-that is, all but soul concerns. It can neither be a price for souls while here, nor can that, with all the forces of strength, recover one out of hell fire.
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Fire Force Hell Power Recover Soul Strength World
I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.
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Best Finding Thinking Time
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
Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
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Man Prayer Sin
The best prayers have often more groans than words.
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Best Deep Hard Time Pain Prayer Word
Humility is the light of the understanding.
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Humility Light One Liner Understand
Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.
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God Ourselves Personal Sin
To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.
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Humble Lost Seek World
I seek a place that can never be destroyed, one that is pure, and that fadeth not away, and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there, to be given, at the time appointed, to them that seek it with all their heart. Read it so, if you will, in my book.
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Book Destroy Place Reading Safety Seek
It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.
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Country Growth Tree Winter
It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled.
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Empty Fill God Heart Open
Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.
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Deep Heaven Old Truth
He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.
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Happiness Himself Live Sin
Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.
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Man Sleep Sweet
Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.
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Better Grace Greatness
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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Burn Heart Known Learning Prayer Truth
I 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.
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Earth God Hear Love Myself
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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