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

  John Bunyan

  Ships, Sin, Leaks

  'The Pilgrim's Progress' (1684) pt. 2

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• I saw, moreover, that it was not my good frame of heart that made my righteousness better, nor my bad frame that made my righteousness worse; for my righteousness was Jesus Christ himself, the same yesterday and today and forever.

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  Jesus, Heart, Yesterday And Today

  John Bunyan (1811). “Choice Works: Containing Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners: Heart's Ease in Heart Trouble: The World to Come, Or Visions of Heaven and Hell: The Barren Fig-tree: and The River of Water of Life”, p.75

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• Talkative represents the man or woman who delights in talking about divine things but has only theoretical knowledge of such things. No actual personal heart experience correlates to the matters they love to discuss so eloquently. They are often highly esteemed by others, but those closest to them would quickly betray a life out-of-sync with their words. The mask fashioned by fluency with all subjects divine hides their real life.

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  Real, Heart, Men

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• The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.

  John Bunyan

  Men, Law, Religion

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• He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.

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  Sorrow, Given

  John Bunyan, Thomas Scott (1825). “The Pilgrim's Progress: From this World to that which is to Come. Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream. In Two Parts”, p.56

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• I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.

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  Eye, Moss, Prison

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• Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.

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  Grace, Small Gifts, Great Gifts

  John Bunyan (1831). “The works of that eminent servant of Christ, John Bunyan: minister of the gospel and formerly Pastor of a Congregatin at Bedford”, p.82

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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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  Deliverance, Chains, My Own

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• It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be received with the same grace, whether it be given by the poorest of saints or the most educated person.

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  Pride, Grace, Saint

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• Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.

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  Dark, Clouds, Water

  John Bunyan (2013). “The Pilgrim’s Progress Simplified: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.124, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.

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  Truth, Smell, Heaven

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.1030, Delphi Classics

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• At the day of Doom men shall be judged according to their fruits. It will not be said then, did you believe? But, were you doers or talkers only?

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  Believe, Men, Doers

  John Bunyan (2017). “Pilgrim's Progress (Illustrated Edition)”, p.82, Whitaker House

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• If thou hast sinned, lie not down without repentance; for the want of repentance, after one has sinned, makes the heart yet harder and harder.

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  Christian, Lying, Heart

  "Christian Behaviour: A Holy Life, the Beauty of Christianity, the Fear of God, and an Exhortation to Unity and Peace to which is Added a Caution Against Sin".

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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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  Hurt, Grieving, Temptation

  John Bunyan (1997). “Your Victory in Christ”, Whitaker Distribution

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• If you release me today, I'll preach tomorrow.

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  Today, Tomorrow, Release

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• The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.

  John Bunyan

  Use, Wheat, Lord

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• I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.

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  Jail, Butchery, Ends

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail". Open letter by Martin Luther King, Jr., April 16, 1963.

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• There is a warning here for true pilgrims. Beware of the talker, but also be careful not to judge too quickly those whom God has blessed with both genuine grace and a fluency to speak of divine mercy in ways more eloquent than others. The proof is in the life-not a perfect life, but a life that both delights in divine truth and magnifies God, the only giver of the sovereign grace that always produces the truly fruitful, fragrant life.

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  Blessed, Perfect, Judging

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• If you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the Man Christ without, and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, you are not able to divide the word aright; but contrariwise, you corrupt the word of God.

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  Men, Differences, Able

  John Bunyan (1850). “The Riches of Bunyan”, p.140

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• I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.

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  Love, Shoes, Earth

  John Bunyan (1792). “The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come. With notes by J. Bradford”, p.438

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• He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.

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  Ungrateful, Forget, Saviour

  John Bunyan (1839). “The pilgrim's progress”, p.267

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• Prayer is a shield to the soul

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  Prayer, Soul, Shields

  John Bunyan (1872). “The Complete Works of John Bunyan”, p.80

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• Take heed of driving so hard after this world, as to hinder thyself and family from those duties towards God, which thou art by grace obliged to; as private prayer, reading the scriptures, and Christian conference. It is a base thing for men so to spend themselves and families after this world, as that they disengage their heart to God's worship.

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  Christian, Art, Prayer

  JOHN BUNYAN (1860). “THE ENTIRE WORKS”, p.171

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• Faith receiveth the promise, embraceth it, and comforteth the soul unspeakably with it. Faith is so great an artist in arguing and reasoning with the soul, that it will bring over the hardest heart that it hath to deal with. It will bring to my remembrance at once, both my vileness against God, and his goodness towards me; it will show me, that though I deserve not to breathe in the air, yet that God will have me an heir of glory.

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  Heart, Artist, Air

  JOHN BUNYAN (1860). “THE ENTIRE WORKS”, p.166

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• The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.

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  Prayer, World, Had Enough

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