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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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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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Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion.
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No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
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Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.
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He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.
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Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.
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Though it be said that faith cometh by hearing, yet it is the Spirit that worketh faith in the heart through hearing, or else they are not profited by hearing.
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I was never out of my Bible.
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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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He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.
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There is enough sin in my best prayer to send the whole world to Hell.
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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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There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent.
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a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.
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If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.
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The heart, when broken, is like sweet gums and spices when beaten for as such cast their fragrant scent into the nostrils of men, so the heart, when broken, casts its sweet smell into the nostrils of God.
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He that is down needs fear no fall.
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