41 quotes found
“Saint abroad and a devil at home.”
“He that is down need fear no fall.”
“The best prayers have often more groans than words.”
“They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?”
“Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion.”
“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ”
“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.”
“Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.”
“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...”
“What God says is best, indeed is best, though all men in the world are against it. Seeing, then, that God prefers his religion; seeing God prefers a tender conscience; seeing they that make themsel...”
“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?”
“On the Day of Judgment , life and death are not determined by the world but by God's wisdom and law”
“Now may this little Book a blessing beTo 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.”
“Just as Christian came up to the Cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, fell from off his back, and began to tumble down the hill, and so it continued to do till it came to the mouth of t...”
“Then said he, I am going to my Fathers; 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 t...”
“Another part or piece,' said Diabolus, 'of mine excellent armour, is a dumb and prayerless spirit, a spirit that scorns to cry for mercy, let the danger be ever so great; therefore be you, my Manso...”
“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 ...”
“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”
“I have determined, the Almighty God being my help and my shield, yet to suffer, if frail life might continue so long, even until the moss shall grow on my eyebrows, rather than to violate my faith ...”
“O my Mansoul, I have lived, I have died, I live, and I will die no more for thee. I live that thou mayest not die. Because I live thou shalt live also; I reconciled thee to my Father by the blood o...”
“There is in Jesus Christ more merit and righteousness than the whole world has need of.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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".”
