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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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words
prayer
inspirational
christian
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What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.
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ridicule
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This hill though high I covent ascend; The difficulty will not me offend; For I perceive the way of life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear.
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This hill, though high, I covet to ascend; The difficulty will not me offend. For I perceive the way to life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear. Better, though difficult, the right way to go, Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.
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inspirational
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John Bunyan |
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a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.
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John Bunyan |
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Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.
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John Bunyan |
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I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?
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bravery
truthful
christian
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John Bunyan |
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The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.
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world
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John Bunyan |
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I seek a place that can never be destroyed, one that is pure, and that fadeth not away, and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there, to be given, at the time appointed, to them that seek it with all their heart. Read it so, if you will, in my book.
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John Bunyan |
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Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.
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temptation
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John Bunyan |
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It is always hard to see the purpose in wilderness wanderings until after they are over. 6.
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John Bunyan |
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My name is now Christian, but my name used to be Graceless.
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John Bunyan |
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Then said he, 'I am going to my Father's; and though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me that I have fought His battles who now will be my rewarder.'.... So he passed over, and all the tr..
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literature
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For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.
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jesus
truth
scripture
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He that lives in sin, and looks for happiness hereafter, is like him that soweth cockle and thinks to fill his barn with wheat or barley.
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John Bunyan |
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Not that the heart can be good without knowledge, for without knowledge the heart is empty. But there are two kinds of knowledge: the first is alone in its bare speculation of things, and the second is accompanied by the grace of faith and love, which causes a man to do the will of God from the heart. "The"
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But was you not afraid, good sir, when you see him come with his club?" "It is my duty," said he, "to distrust mine own ability, that I may have reliance on him that is stronger than all"."
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power
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God's grace is the most incredible and insurmountable truth ever to be revealed to the human heart, which is why God has given us His Holy Spirit to superintend the process of more fully revealing the majesty of the work done on our behalf by our Savior. He teaches us to first cling to, and then enables us to adore with the faith He so graciously supplies, the mercy of God. This mercy has its cause and effect in the work of Jesus on the cro..
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Now may this little Book a blessing be To those that love this little Book, and me: And may its Buyer have no cause to say, His money is but lost, or thrown away.
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writing
books
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Is there anything more worthy of our tongues and mouths than to speak of the things of God and Heaven?" "I'm"
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John Bunyan |
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To go back is nothing but death; to go forward is fear of death, and life everlasting beyond it. I will yet go forward.
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John Bunyan |
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Great sins do draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ, when showed to the soul, appears most high and mighty...
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John Bunyan |
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Christian may have entered the Valley of Humiliation overconfident and puffed up with false pride, but he departs with humble reliance on the Word of God and prayerful gratitude to the Lord of the Highway who has come to his aid and saved him from the Destroyer. He goes forward with his sword drawn. He has learned his lesson and now relies consciously on God's Word for protection. 5.
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John Bunyan |
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Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion.
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John Bunyan |
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Whoso beset him round With dismal stories Do but themselves confound; His strength the more is.
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John Bunyan |
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Mr. Worldly-Wiseman is not an ancient relic of the past. He is everywhere today, disguising his heresy and error by proclaiming the gospel of contentment and peace achieved by self-satisfaction and works. If he mentions Christ, it is not as the Savior who took our place, but as a good example of an exemplary life. Do we need a good example to rescue us, or do we need a Savior? If
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John Bunyan |
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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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law
power
soul
sin
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A work of grace in the soul makes itself known either to the one who has it or to onlookers. "Where"
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John Bunyan |
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I stopped being watchful and diligent. I rushed after my own lusts. I sinned against the light of the Word and the goodness of God. I have grieved the Spirit, and He is gone. I tempted the Devil, and he has come to me. I have provoked God to anger, and He has left me. I have so hardened my heart that I cannot repent." Then"
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John Bunyan |
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You came in by yourselves, without His direction, and will go out by yourselves, without His mercy." To"
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John Bunyan |
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when you talk of your journey and of what you have heard and seen, you inwardly desire your own glory in all you do and say." "All"
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John Bunyan |
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Indeed, to know is something that pleases talkers and boasters, but to do is that which pleases God. Not
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John Bunyan |
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So he had them into the slaughter house, where was a butcher killing a sheep. And behold, the sheep was quiet and took her death patiently. Then said the Interpreter, "You must learn of this sheep to suffer, and put up wrongs without murmurings and complaints. Behold how quietly she takes her death! And without objecting she suffereth her skin to be pulled over her ears. Your King doth call you his sheep."
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Prudence asked further, "Do you not still carry some of the baggage from the place you escaped?" "Yes, but against my will. I still have within me some of the carnal thoughts that all my countrymen, as well as myself, were delighted with. Now all those things cause me to grieve. If I could master my own heart, I would choose never to think of those things again, but when I try only to think about those things that are best, those things tha..
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I am for going on, and venturing my eternal state with Christ, whether I have comfort here or no; if God doth not come in, thought I, I will leap off the ladder even blindfold into eternity, sink or swim, come heaven, come hell; Lord Jesus, if thou wilt catch me, do; if not, I will venture for thy name.
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John Bunyan |
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Begin at the beginning of Genesis, and read to the end of the Revelations, and see if you can find, that there were ever any that trusted in the Lord, and were confounded.
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John Bunyan |
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As I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Denn; And I laid me down in that place to sleep: And as I slept I dreamed a Dream.
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John Bunyan |
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Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the heart or soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Holy Spirit, for such things as God hath promised, or according to the Word, for the good of the church, with submission, in faith, to the will of God.
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John Bunyan |
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affliction is better than sin, and if God sends the one to cleanse us from the other, let us thank him, and be also content to pay the messenger.
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John Bunyan |
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is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.
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John Bunyan |
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They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?
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salvation
god-s-will
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John Bunyan |
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His basic message is meant to put steel in their backbone and to encourage them to run the race and seek the prize of Heaven. He comes to remind them that they have an enemy who seeks to destroy them. 4.
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Oh, the remembrance of my great sins, of my great temptations, and of my great fears of perishing forever! They bring afresh into my mind the remembrance of my great help, my great support from Heaven, and the great grace that God extended to such a wretch as I.
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John Bunyan |
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Why, man! Christ is so hid in God from the natural apprehensions of the flesh, that he cannot by any man be savingly known, unless God the Father reveals him to them.
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