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“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 Mansoul, sure that you make use of this.”
― John Bunyan, The Holy War

“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 of My cross, and being reconciled thou shalt live through me. I will pray for thee, I will fight for thee, I will yet do thee good.
Nothing can hurt thee but sin; nothing can grieve Me but sin; nothing can make thee base before thy foes but sin; take heed of sin, my Mansoul.”
― John Bunyan, The Holy War

“John Bunyan says that he never forgot the divinity he taught, because it was burnt into him when he was on his knees. That is the way to learn the gospel. If you learn it upon your knees you will never unlearn it. That which 鈥渕en鈥� teach you, men can unteach you 鈥� if I am merely convinced by reason, a better reasoner may deceive me. If I merely hold my doctrinal opinions because they seem 鈥渢o me鈥� to be correct, I may be led to think differently another day. But if 鈥淕od鈥� has taught them to me 鈥� he who is himself pure truth 鈥� I have not learned amiss, but I have so learned that I shall never unlearn, nor shall I forget.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon

“Bunyan points out, for example, how the Pharisees of Jesus鈥� day no doubt phrased their prayers well but were condemned because they fell short of 鈥減ouring out鈥� their hearts to God (IWP, 38). Without help from the Holy Spirit in purifying and pouring out the heart, he writes, one who prays is 鈥渉yp- ocritical, cold, and unseemly鈥� and 鈥渁bominable to God鈥� (IWP, 37).
The hypocrisy God detests, then, is importantly not a matter of say- ing one thing and doing another, but of saying one thing and feeling another: of a disjunction between the logocentric intellect and the heart, between the propositional truths of abstract doctrine and the emotions which are substantively to mirror and confirm it.”
― Lori Branch, Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth