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Prayer is a shield to the soul a sacrifice to God and a scourge for Satan.

The law, instead of cleansing the heart from sin, doth revive it, put strength into, and increase it...

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The Pilgrim's Progress

They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?

The Pilgrim's Progress

On the Day of Judgment , life and death are not determined by the world but by God's wisdom and law

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

This hill, though high, I covet to ascend; The difficulty will not me offend. For I perceive the way...

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The Pilgrim's Progress

The best prayers have often more groans than words.

What God says is best, indeed is best, though all men in the world are against it. Seeing, then, tha...

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Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up

He that is down need fear no fall.

When you pray rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

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

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There is in Jesus Christ more merit and righteousness than the whole world has need of.

The Pilgrim's Progress

But was you not afraid, good sir, when you see him come with his club?""It is my duty," said he, "to...

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The Pilgrim's Progress

For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to b...

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The Pilgrim's Progress

So he had them into the slaughter house, where was a butcher killing a sheep. And behold, the sheep ...

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The Pilgrim's Progress

Another part or piece,' said Diabolus, 'of mine excellent armour, is a dumb and prayerless spirit, a...

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O my Mansoul, I have lived, I have died, I live, and I will die no more for thee. I live that thou m...

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Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin...

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The Holy War

Then said he, ’I am going to my Father’s; and though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now ...

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Pilgrim's Progress

Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.

Pilgrim's Progress

Now may this little Book a blessing beTo those that love this little Book, and me:And may its Buyer ...

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Christiana's Journey Or The Pilgrim's Progress

Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this...

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

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

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Then Apollyon straddled quite over the whole breadth of the way, and said "I am void of fear in this...

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I have determined, the Almighty God being my help and my shield, yet to suffer, if frail life might ...

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You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

Saint abroad and a devil at home.

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

Just as Christian came up to the Cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, fell from off his ...

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A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails wi...

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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 n...

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The Pilgrims Progress

Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion.

The Pilgrims Progress

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John Bunyan

Writer

Born: 1628-11-28

Died: 1688-08-31

John Bunyan (28 November 1628 – 3 August 1688) was a Christian writer and preacher, born at Harrowden, in the Parish of Elstow, England, most famous for the allegorical work The Pilgrim's Progress.More