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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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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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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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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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As your faith is, such your hope will be. Hope is never ill when faith is well, nor strong if faith be weak.
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It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.
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He that is down needs fear no fall.
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Run when I can, walk when I cannot run, and creep when I cannot walk.
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The same yesterday, today, and forever.
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I live because I am a Warrior and because I wish one day to be in the company of [She] for whom I have fought so hard
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Men, even the elect, have too many infirmities to come to Christ without help from heaven inviting will not do.
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I could not be satisfied unless some fruits did appear in my work.
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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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I preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.
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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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Now may this little Book a blessing be To those that love this little Book, and me: And may its Buyer have no cause to say, His money is but lost, or thrown away.
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Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.
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Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.
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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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The law, instead of cleansing the heart from sin, doth revive it, put strength into, and increase it in the soul, even as it doth discover and forbid it, for it doth not give power to subdue.
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I saw a man clothed with rags . . . a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.
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