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.
The best prayers have often more groans than words.
I am for going on, and venturing my eternal state with Christ, whether I have comfort here or no; if God doth not come in, thought I, I will leap off the ladder even blindfold into eternity, sink or s...
Begin at the beginning of Genesis, and read to the end of the Revelations, and see if you can find, that there were ever any that trusted in the Lord, and were confounded.
He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
They now see with Heaven's eyes the schemes, traps, enticements, and entertainments of the world in a new way. So
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 and...
He ran till he came to a small hill, at the top of which stood a cross and at the bottom of which was a tomb. I saw in my dream that when Christian walked up the hill to the cross, his burden came loo...
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.
When you pray rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.
They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?
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.
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
It was not my good frame of heart that made my righteousness better, nor yet my bad frame that made my righteousness worse; for my righteousness was Jesus Christ Himself, the same yesterday, and to-da...
Affliction is better than sin, and if God sends the one to cleanse us from the other, let us thank him, and be also content to pay the messenger.
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?
Aquele que já está no chão não precisa de cair; Aquele que desceu ao mais baixo não precisa de ter orgulho.
My name is now Christian, but my name used to be Graceless.
Mr. Worldly-Wiseman is not an ancient relic of the past. He is everywhere today, disguising his heresy and error by proclaiming the gospel of contentment and peace achieved by self-satisfaction and wo...
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.