Pilgrim's Progress, Part 2 Quotes

“Then said he, ’I am going to my Father’s; and though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me that I have fought His battles who now will be my rewarder.’.... So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, Part 2: Christiana

“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

“women followed him and supported him out of their own means. It was a woman who washed his feet with her tears, and a woman who anointed his body to be buried. Women, therefore are highly favored, and show”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress Part 2 in Contemporary English

“For why? The Lord our God is good’ His mercy is for ever sure; His truth at all times firmly stood, And shall from age to age endure.”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress Part 2 in Contemporary English

“Prudence: Now James, can you tell me who made you? James: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Prudence: Good boy. And can you tell me who saves you? James: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Prudence: Good boy again. But how does God the Father save you? James: By his grace. Prudence: How does God the Son save you? James: By reckoning his righteousness to me, by dying, and shedding his blood for me, and by his perfect life. Prudence: How does God the Holy Spirit save you? James: By enlightening me, by renewing me, and by preserving me. “You’re to be congratulated for the way you’re bringing up your children”, said Prudence to Christiana. “I suppose it’s not necessary for me to ask those questions of the rest, since the youngest has answered them so well. So now I’ll take the next youngest.”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress Part 2 in Contemporary English

“if sin is Satan’s rope by which the soul is bound, how can it resist till it is released from that weakness. Secondly, how could anyone who is acquainted with either reason or grace, believe that a man who is a slave to his own corruption”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress Part 2 in Contemporary English

“Prudence: Now James, can you tell me who made you? James: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Prudence: Good boy. And can you tell me who saves you? James: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Prudence: Good boy again. But how does God the Father save you? James: By his grace. Prudence: How does God the Son save you?”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress Part 2 in Contemporary English