You can do more than pray, after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.
"John Bunyan" was an English writer and preacher best remembered as the author of the religious allegory The Pilgrim's Progress. In addition to The Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons.
Bunyan came from the village of Elstow, near Bedford. He had little schooling and at the age of sixteen joined the Parliamentary army during the first stage of the English Civil War. After three years in the army he returned to Elstow and took up the trade of tinker, which he had learnt from his father. He became interested in religion after his marriage, attending first the parish church and then joining the Bedford Meeting, a nonconformist group in Bedford, and becoming a preacher. After the Restoration (England)/restoration of the monarch, when the freedom of nonconformists was curtailed, Bunyan was arrested and spent the next twelve years in gaol as he refused to undertake to give up preaching. During this time he wrote a spiritual autobiography, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, and began work on his most famous book, The Pilgrim's Progress, which was not published until some years after his release.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous clergy! More John Bunyan on Wikipedia.He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find him the rest of the day.
He that is down needs fear no fall, He that is low, no pride.
If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes the heart yet harder and harder.
Pray often; for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.
Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, the slight of His power, and the contempt of His love.
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
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