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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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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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I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.
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Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
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I am content with what I have, little be it, or much.
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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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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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