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A saint abroad, and a devil at home.

John Bunyan

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John Bunyan
Age: 59 †
Born: 1628
Born: November 28
Died: 1688
Died: August 31
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Elstow
Bedfordshire
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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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It is easier going out of the way when we are in, than going in when we are out.
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The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.
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One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
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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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He that is down needs fear no fall.
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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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I come from the Town of Stupidity it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.
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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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Let dissolution come when it will, it can do the Christian no harm, for it will be but a passage out of a prison into a palace out of a sea of troubles into a haven of rest out of a crowd of enemies, to an innumerable company of true, loving, and faithful friends out of shame, reproach, and contempt, into exceeding great and eternal glory.
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To seek yourself in this world is to be lost and to be humble is to be exalted.
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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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Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion.
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