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From Quotes by John Bunyan
- 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,…
- 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…
- I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.
- [Mr. Gifford] made it much his business to deliver the people of God from all those false and unsound rests that by nature we are…
- The law, instead of cleansing the heart from sin, doth revive it, put strength into, and increase it in the soul, even as it doth…
- Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.
- 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,…
- Men, even the elect, have too many infirmities to come to Christ without help from heaven; inviting will not do.
- As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a den; and I laid me down in…
- The covetous man feareth not God. This also is plain from the word because it setteth covetousness and the fear of God in direct opposition.…
- Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.
- Take heed of driving so hard after this world, as to hinder thyself and family from those duties towards God, which thou art by grace…
- If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself, they won't do whatever they want,…
- In prayer, it is better to have heart without words, than words without heart. Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin entice…
- Their bodies will be raised from the dead as vessels for the soul-vessels of wrath. The soul will breathe hell-fire, and smoke and coal will…
- Such is the effect of the grace of God in the heart of a pilgrim; while on one hand he sees the propensity of his…
- The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.
- Fear, lest, by forgetting what you are by nature, you also forget the need that you have of continual pardon, support, and supplies from the…
- …just as Christian came up to the Cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, fell from off his back, and began to tumble down…
- He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.
- 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…
- Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
- Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there…
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