"Faith is a fruit, work, or gift of……" — John Bunyan
"Faith is a fruit, work, or gift of the Spirit of God, whereby a poor soul is enabled through the mighty operation of God, in a sense of its sins and wretched estate to lay hold on the righteousness, blood, death, resurrection, ascension, intercession, and coming again of the Son of God which was crucified without the gates of Jerusalem, for eternal life."
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John Bunyan
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161 Quotes by John Bunyan
John Bunyan has 161 quotes on this site.
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If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper…
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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…
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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…
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Prayer is an ordinance of God, that must continue with a soul so long as it is on this side…
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Sincerity is the same in a corner alone, as it is before the face of the world. It knows not…
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It is not the mouth that is the main thing to be looked at in prayer, but whether the heart…
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We know not the matter of the things for which we should pray, neither the object to whom we pray,…
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The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it…
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That world beyond is a world of sanctity and radiance; therefore, it is necessary that in this world he should…
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To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within.…
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As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are…
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There are airmen and there are pilots: the first being part bird whose view from aloft is normal and comfortable,…
— Ernest K. Gann
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I hold that in the flight of the soaring birds (the vultures, the eagles, and other birds which fly without…
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COMMEMORATION Blessed art Thou, O Lord who didst bring forth of water moving creatures that have life, and whales, and…
— Lancelot Andrewes
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Every way that we try to make our kids good that isn’t rooted in the good news of the life,…
— Elyse Fitzpatrick
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Success...is no longer a simple ascension of steps. You need to climb sideways and sometimes down, and sometimes you need…
— Reid Hoffman
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There's always another level up. There's always another ascension. More grace, more light, more generosity, more compassion, more to shed,…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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The Ascension is actually the birth of the Inner You expressed as the spiritual individualism of the inner particle state.
— Stuart Wilde
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At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter.
— Oswald Chambers
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