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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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For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.
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Though the world disregard the society of God's children now, yet there is a time coming in which they would be glad to have the least company with them.
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The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.
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Every time you have with your mouth said well of godliness, and yet gone on in wickedness or every time you have condemned sin in others, and yet have not refrained it yourselves I say, every such word and conclusion that hath passed out of thy mouth, sinner, it shall be as a witness against thee in the day of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
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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, they'll do whatever He wants.
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There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent.
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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, of Christ, or of his blessed things.
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I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.
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One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
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Run when I can, walk when I cannot run, and creep when I cannot walk.
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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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He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.
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No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
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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 as if one was awake.
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Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.
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There is enough sin in my best prayer to send the whole world to Hell.
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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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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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I could not be satisfied unless some fruits did appear in my work.
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