The Pilgrim's Progress Quotes

“The bothersome noise of religious talk grows irksome when laid upon the living score of discordant behavior. Talkative's”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“We should not take lightly the horrible thoughts this place of death and destruction are meant to unveil. We are warned about the misery of death and Hell and should reflect upon its timeless torments and endless darkness in which men grope hopelessly for some relief that they are fully persuaded no longer exists.
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― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“The hill, though high, I desire to ascend, The difficulty will not me offend;
For Iperceive”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“Most men will not ignore the present world that they can see in order to make the world they cannot see the object of their desires. Therefore, there is an
immediate friendship between this world and a man's fleshly desires and a corresponding distance between carnal man and eternal things.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“Then the Interpreter took Christian by the hand and led him into a very large parlor that was full of dust because it was never swept. After He had reviewed it a little while, the Interpreter called for a man to come and sweep. Now when he began to sweep, the dust began to fly about so much and was so thick that Christian almost choked. Then said the Interpreter to a damsel who stood nearby, "Bring water, and sprinkle the room." When she had done as requested, it was swept and cleansed very pleasantly.
Then Christian asked, "What does this mean?"
The Interpreter answered, "This parlor is the heart of a man that has never been sanctified by the sweet grace of the gospel; the dust is his original sin and inward corruptions that have defiled the whole man. The first man that began to sweep is the Law; the damsel that brought water and sprinkled it is the gospel. You saw that as soon as the first man began to sweep, the dust filled the room
so thickly that it could not be cleansed, and you almost choked on it. This is to show you that the Law, instead of cleansing the heart from sin, actually revives, increases, and adds strength to it. Even though the Law uncovers and forbids sin, it is powerless to conquer or subdue”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“Then said the giant, "Thou practices the craft of a kidnapper. Thou gatherest up woman and children and carriest them into a strange country, to the weakening of my master's kingdom." But now Great-Heart replied, "I am a servant of the God of Heaven; my business is to persuade sinners of repentance. I am commanded to do my endeavor to turn men, women and children, fro darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“God have mercy on a sinner like me and enable me to know and believe in Jesus Christ. For I understand that if the righteousness of Christ was not available or if I didn’t have faith in that righteousness, then I would be utterly rejected from your presence. Lord, I’ve heard that you’re a merciful God and have ordained that your Son, Jesus Christ, should be the Savior of the world.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: A Readable Modern-Day Version of John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress

“Jesus has given me rest by means of His sorrow and life by means of His death!”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: A Readable Modern-Day Version of John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress

“this?”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress

“Sí, señora, aunque bien contra mi voluntad: especialmente mis propios pensamientos carnales, que tanto nos complacían a mí y a mis paisanos; pero ahora todas estas cosas me pesan tanto que, si la elección fuera solo mía, nunca más pensaría en ellas. Pero cuando quiero hacer el bien, entonces veo que el mal está en mí3.”
― John Bunyan, El progreso del peregrino

“Pure religion and undefiled, before God and the Father, is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“Then he took him by the hand, and led him into a very large parlor full of dust, as if it had never been swept. The Interpreter called to a man and told him to sweep. The man grabbed a broom and swept and in so doing stirred a thick cloud of dust into the air. The dust grew so dense it almost choked Christian. The Interpreter then spoke to a woman who stood nearby. “Bring some water here and sprinkle the room.” The woman did as she was told and the entire room was easily swept and cleaned. Christian asked, “What does this mean?” The Interpreter answered, “This parlor is the heart of a man who was never sanctified by the sweet grace of the gospel. The dust is his sin and inward corruption which has defiled the whole man. The one who began to sweep at first is the law, but she who brought water and sprinkled it is the gospel. Interpreter shows Christian the room full of dust “Now while you saw the room fill with the great cloud of dust when first swept, the dust flew about in such a way that the room could not be cleansed and its dust almost choked you. This is to show you that the law, instead of cleansing the heart from sin, does in fact arouse it. (So that without the law I lived for some time; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. – Rom. 7:9) It also gives it greater strength (The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. – 1 Cor. 15:56), and causes sin to flourish in the soul (Moreover the law entered that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. – Rom. 5:20), for even as the law uncovers sin and forbids it, it does not provide the power to subdue it. “In the same way, the woman you saw sprinkle the room with water which made it easy to clean – this is to show you that when the gospel comes with its sweet and precious influences and indwells the heart, just like the dust settled by sprinkling the floor with water, sin is also vanquished and subdued and the soul made clean, through faith. Consequently, the soul becomes a suitable place for the King of Glory to inhabit.” (Now to him that is able to confirm you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was concealed from times eternal but now is made manifest, and by the writings of the prophets, by the commandment of God eternal, declared unto all the Gentiles, that they might hear and obey by faith. – Rom. 16:25, 26)”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress

“He ran till he came to a small hill, at the top of which stood a cross and at the bottom of which was a tomb. I saw in my dream that when Christian walked up the hill to the cross, his burden came loose from his shoulders and fell off his back, tumbling down the hill until it came to the mouth of the tomb, where it fell in to be seen no more.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“They say you are a blemish among Christians and that true religion gets a bad reputation because of your ungodly conduct. I have heard that some have already stumbled because of your wicked ways and that even more are in danger of being destroyed by your example. Alehouses,”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“There is a warning here for true pilgrims. Beware of the talker, but also be careful not to judge too quickly those whom God has blessed with both genuine grace and a fluency to speak of divine mercy in ways more eloquent than others. The proof is in the life-not a perfect life, but a life that both delights in divine truth and magnifies God, the only giver of the sovereign grace that always produces the truly fruitful, fragrant life.
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― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“Destruction. This pathway also represents a way that is not the straight way, also a way with a wide variety of many other religious and social philosophies.
Danger”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“Christian's attempt to help remedy the perilous condition of these three sleeping pilgrims is met with indifference, indolence, and intolerance. Christian, troubled by the lack of spiritual concern in the "religious" world, does his best to bring about a change, but all his efforts are scorned and rebuffed. Lesson one for the new Christian-many a careless and indifferent traveler will not survive the pilgrimage.
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― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“Everyone needs to make his own choices. You need to mind your own business and not meddle in ours." So”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“Loosed of his burden, Christian makes his way to the bottom of the hill where he finds three men fast asleep. Foolish represents spiritual dullness and ignorance. Sloth represents spiritual laziness. Presumption represents spiritual pride and arrogance. The consequences of all three conditions are self-inflicted incarceration and lack of progress on the King's Highway.
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― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“he had eyes lifted up to Heaven, the best of books in his hand, the law of truth written upon his lips, the world behind his back. He stood as if pleading with men, and a crown of gold hung over his head."
Then”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“CHR. True or right fear is discovered by three things:-- 1. By its rise; it is caused by saving convictions for sin. 2. It driveth the soul to lay fast hold of Christ for salvation. 3. It begetteth and continueth in the soul a great reverence of God, his Word, and ways, keeping it tender, and making it afraid to turn from them, to the right hand or to the left, to anything that may dishonour God, break its peace, grieve the Spirit, or cause the enemy to speak reproachfully.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“Why, man! Christ is so hid in God from the natural apprehensions of the flesh, that he cannot by any man be savingly known, unless God the Father reveals him to them.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“The Swamp of Despond is that place set before the narrow gate where true and false pilgrims alike are assaulted by their own internal corruption and pollution. The dirt and scum that has attached itself to our hearts and minds is agitated and revealed by both the workings of a guilty conscience and the devouring avarice of the enemy of our souls.
The”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“Eso lo dudo, porque dejarlo todo es un asunto difícil; sí, más difícil de lo que muchos creen.”
― John Bunyan, El Progreso del Peregrino

“lo que Él hizo en obediencia a la ley de su Padre, y al someterse al castigo de ella, no fue para sí mismo sino para aquel que lo acepta para su salvación, y es agradecido.”
― John Bunyan, El Progreso del Peregrino

“Ustedes no están aún fuera del objetivo del diablo; no han resistido hasta la sangre, luchando contra el pecado; tengan siempre el reino delante de ustedes, y crean firmemente con respecto a las cosas invisibles. No dejen que nada que hay a este lado del otro mundo les invada; y sobre todo, guarden bien su propio corazón, y los deseos que tiene, porque son engañosos más que todas las cosas, y desesperadamente malvados;”
― John Bunyan, El Progreso del Peregrino

“Esforzaos a entrar por la puerta angosta’,”
― John Bunyan, El Progreso del Peregrino

“is the heavenly glory of so little worth with him, that he counteth it not worth running the risk of a few difficulties to obtain it?”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“Matt. Then Matthew who had been sick, asked her, Why for the most part Physick should be bitter to our palates? Prud. To shew how unwelcome the Word of God and the effects thereof are to a Carnal Heart. Matt. Why does Physick, if it does good, purge, and cause that we vomit? Prud. To shew that the Word, when it works effectually, cleanseth the Heart and Mind. For look, what the one doth to the Body the other doth to the Soul.”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress

“How sinful you are, oh sleep! Because of you my journey which should have been in the light has been overtaken by the night! I must walk without the sun. Darkness covers the path of my feet, and now I must listen to noises of miserable creatures, all because of my sinful sleep!”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress