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God Quotes by John Bunyan
- 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…
- 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…
- Prayer is an ordinance of God, that must continue with a soul so long as it is on this side glory.
- 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…
- Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled with God.
- 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…
- In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.
- Christian, let God's distinguishing love to you be a motive to you to fear Him greatly. He has put His fear in your heart, and…
- Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well…
- [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…
- To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.
- The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end
- No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
- Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no…
- God speaks once, yea twice, yet Man perceiveth it not, in a Dream, in a Vision of the night, when deep Sleep falleth upon men,…
- To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.
- The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand one day a book of Martin Luthers; it was…
- Faith receiveth the promise, embraceth it, and comforteth the soul unspeakably with it. Faith is so great an artist in arguing and reasoning with the…
- 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,…
- Beware of resting in the word of the kingdom, without the spirit and power of the kingdom of that gospel, for the gospel coming in…
- There can be but one will the master in our salvation, but that shall never be the will of man, but of God; therefore man…
- The kingdom of heaven is for the heirs - and if children, then heirs; if born again, then heirs. Wherefore it is said expressly, Except…
- To lay hold of and receive the gospel by a true and saving faith is an act of the soul that has been made a…
- 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,…
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi