“You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.”1
“Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.”
“Therefore, I bind these lies and slanderous accusations to my person as an ornament; it belongs to my Christian profession to be vilified, slandered, reproached and reviled, and since all this is nothing but that, as God and my conscience testify, I rejoice in being reproached for Christ’s sake.”
“No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.”
“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.”
“Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!”
“In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.”
“What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.”
“When you pray, rather let your heart be without words then your words without heart. ”
“Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.”
“Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.”
“Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.”
“It is possible to learn all about the mysteries of the Bible and never be affected by it in one’s soul. Great knowledge is not enough.”
“No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.”
“And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth!”
“The best prayers have often more groans than words.”
“In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies.”
“He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.”
1 All of the following quotes are from the websites below:
63 John Bunyan Quotes | ChristianQuotes.info
John Bunyan Quotes (Author of The Pilgrim’s Progress)
45 Famous Quotes by John Bunyan (Author of The Pilgrim’s Progress)
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