John Bunyan > Quotes

“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ”
― John Bunyan

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”
― John Bunyan

“One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner.”
― John Bunyan

“This hill though high I covent ascend;
The difficulty will not me offend;
For I perceive the way of life lies here.
Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear. ”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrims Progress; From This World to That Which Is to Come by a New Edition

“I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.”
― John Bunyan

“It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.”
― John Bunyan

“If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us…”
― John Bunyan

“…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 the sepulchre. There it fell in, and I saw it no more!”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.”
― John Bunyan

“a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“When you pray, rather let your heart be without words then your words without heart. ”
― John Bunyan

“He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.”
― John Bunyan

“I live because I am a Warrior and because I wish one day to be in the company of [She] for whom I have fought so hard”
― John Bunyan

“The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction”
― John Bunyan

“Fear, lest, by forgetting what you are by nature, you also forget the need that you have of continual pardon, support, and supplies from the Spirit of grace, and so grow proud of your own abilities, or of what you have received from God.”
― John Bunyan

“Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.”
― John Bunyan

“It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.”
― John Bunyan

“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?”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrims Progress; From This World to That Which Is to Come by a New Edition

“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.”
― John Bunyan, The Holy War

“Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.”
― John Bunyan

“I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.”
― John Bunyan

“Farewell, I wish our souls may meet with comfort at the journey's end."-

The Heavenly Footman: A Puritan's View of How to Get to Heaven.”
― John Bunyan

“Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrims Progress; From This World to That Which Is to Come by a New Edition

“Now may this little Book a blessing be
To 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.”
― John Bunyan, Christiana's Journey Or The Pilgrim's Progress, The Second Part

“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, the right way to go,
Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“Whoso beset him round
With dismal stories
Do but themselves confound;
His strength the more is.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there is no saving... Where there is grafting there will always be a cutting, the graft must be let in with a wound; to stick it onto the outside or to tie it on with a string would be of no use. Heart must be set to heart and back to back or there will be no sap from root to branch. And this, I say, must be done by a wound, by a cut.”
― John Bunyan