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The best prayers have often more groans than words.

John Bunyan

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John Bunyan
Age: 59 †
Born: 1628
Born: November 28
Died: 1688
Died: August 31
Novelist
Preacher
Theologian
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Elstow
Bedfordshire
John Bunyan
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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 key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.
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The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.
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Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
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Now, I saw, upon a time, when he was walking in the fields, that he was, as he was wont, reading in his book, and greatly distressed in his mind and, as he read, he burst out, as he had done before, crying, What shall I do to be saved?
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Nothing can hurt you except sin nothing can grieve me except sin nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.
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If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.
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It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be received with the same grace, whether it be given by the poorest of saints or the most educated person.
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It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.
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Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.
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It is easier going out of the way when we are in, than going in when we are out.
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See how ye Pharisee in the Temple stands, And justifies himself with lifted hands. Whilst ye poor publican with downcast eyes, Conscious of guilt to God for mercy cries.
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Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.
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No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
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The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.
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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 let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.
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I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.
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Farewell, I wish our souls may meet with comfort at the journey's end.- The Heavenly Footman: A Puritan's View of How to Get to Heaven.
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The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.
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Run when I can, walk when I cannot run, and creep when I cannot walk.
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He that is down needs fear no fall.
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