John Bunyan Quotes
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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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There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.
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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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One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
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Look how fears have presented themselves, so have supports and encouragements; yea, when I have started, even as it were at nothing else but my…
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The best prayers have often more groans than words.
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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…
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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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Sincerity is the same in a corner alone, as it is before the face of the world. It knows not how to wear two vizards,…
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It is not the mouth that is the main thing to be looked at in prayer, but whether the heart is so full of affection…
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We know not the matter of the things for which we should pray, neither the object to whom we pray, nor the medium by or…
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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…
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Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled with God.
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The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.
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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…
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Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.
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In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.
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The more he cast away, the more he had.
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What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a…
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Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they…
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