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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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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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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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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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Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.
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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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He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.
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Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
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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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The same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
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Fullness to such a burden is That go on pilgrimage Here little, and hereafter bliss, Is best from age to age.
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Who would true valour see, Let him come hither One here will constant be, Come wind, come weather There’s no discouragement Shall make him once relent His first avowed intent To be a pilgrim.
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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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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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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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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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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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