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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
Writer
Elstow
Bedfordshire
John Bunyan
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To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.
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The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.
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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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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 preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.
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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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It is easier going out of the way when we are in, than going in when we are out.
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Wherefore, though the Christian, as a Christian, is the only man at liberty, as called thereunto of God yet his liberty is limited to things that are good: he is not licensed thereby to indulge the flesh.
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I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.
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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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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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Run when I can, walk when I cannot run, and creep when I cannot walk.
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Nae man can tether time nor tide.
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I am content with what I have, little be it, or much.
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What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.
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Some said, John, print it others said Not so. Some said, It might do good others said, No.
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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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No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
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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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But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower
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