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I was never out of my Bible.

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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Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.
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Now, I saw, upon a time, when he was walking in the fields, that he was, as he was wont, reading in his book, and greatly distressed in his mind and, as he read, he burst out, as he had done before, crying, What shall I do to be saved?
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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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One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
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A saint abroad, and a devil at home.
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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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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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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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