Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners: A Brief Account of God’s Exceeding Mercy through Christ to His Poor Servant, John Bunyan (Bunyan Updated Classics Book 5)

by John Bunyan

I saw that I needed a perfect righteousness to present me without fault before God, and this righteousness was nowhere to be found, except in the person of Jesus Christ.

eighty years old,

I want to say before all people that I prefer this book, Martin Luther’s commentary on Galatians, above all the books that I have ever read (with the exception of the Holy Bible), as most fit for a wounded conscience.

but to see how many of their unsaved followers I could convince of their wretched condition by the law of Moses and of the need and worth of Christ.

But as to other things, I would leave them alone, because I saw that they caused strife, and because neither by discussing or avoiding them were any brought into the family of God.

as if my head had been in a bag all the time of the sermon.

It is far better that you judge yourself, even by preaching plainly to others, than that you imprison the truth in unrighteousness to save yourself.

a little grace, a little love, a little of the true fear of God is better than all these gifts. Yes, and I am fully convinced that it is possible for someone who can barely answer a question about the things of God to have a thousand times more grace and so to be more in the love and favor of the Lord than some who by virtue of the gift of knowledge can eloquently speak like angels.