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John Bunyan

Author of “The Pilgrim’s Promise,” published in 1678 in London, among other publications.

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Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

– John Bunyan

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Faithful: What! why he (Shame) objected against religion itself; he said it was a pitiful, low, sneaking business for a man to mind religion; he said that a tender conscious was an unmanly thing; and that for a man to watch over his words and ways, so as to tie himself up from that hectoring liberty that the brave spirits of the times accustom themselves unto, would make him the ridicule of the times.”

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Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.

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He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

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If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

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My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

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Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.

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One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.

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Temptations, when we first meet them, are like a lion that roared at Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.

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The more he cast away the more he had.

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There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

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