The Pilgrim's Progress Quotes

“Psalm 40:2)”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress

“Well, this is very disturbing! I pray that God will make me more aware of the traps that led to this man’s misery if it should ever come my way.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: A Readable Modern-Day Version of John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress

“Shame tells me what men are; but he tells me nothing what God, or the Word of God, is.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“shall be sure. Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off. – Isa. 33:16-17)”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress

“Entonces Evangelista dijo: “Si esa es tu condición, ¿por qué te quedas quieto?”. Él respondió: “Porque no sé dónde ir”. Entonces le entregó un rollo de pergamino, y en él estaba escrito: “Huye de la ira por venir”.7 El hombre, por lo tanto, lo leyó; y mirando a Evangelista con mucha atención dijo: “¿A dónde debo huir?”. Entonces Evangelista dijo, señalando con su dedo a un campo muy abierto: “¿Ves allá esa puerta estrecha?”.8 El hombre dijo: “No”. Entonces le dijo: “¿Ves allí aquella luz que resplandece?”. Él dijo: “Creo que sí”. Entonces Evangelista dijo: “Mantén tu vista en esa luz, y camina directamente hacia ella: así verás la puerta; y cuando llames, se te dirá lo que debas hacer”.”
― John Bunyan, El Progreso del Peregrino

“holiness teaches him to inwardly condemn his sin and doing it in secret. It also teaches him to suppress sin in his family and to promote holiness in the world. He does so not by just talking about it, as a hypocrite or talkative person might do, but by practical application in faith and love to the power of the Word.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: A Readable Modern-Day Version of John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress

“He that wandereth out of the way of knowledge, shall remain in the congregation of the dead.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“Y ahora tengo que avanzar con dolor, que hubiera podido hacer con alegría, si no hubiera sido por este sueño pecaminoso.”
― Juan Bunyan, El progreso del peregrino para todos

“All you leave behind isn’t worthy to be compared with the tiniest portion of that which I am seeking to enjoy.”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress

“I can only say this, that for true worship of God there is a divine faith required, but there can be no divine faith without a divine revelation of the will of God.”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress

“Chris. And what said the neighbors to him? Faith. He hath, since his going back, been held greatly in derision, and that among all sorts of people: some do mock and despise him, and scarce any will set him on work. He is now seven times worse than if he had never gone out of the city. Chris. But why should they be set so against him, since they also despise the way that he forsook? Faith. “Oh,” they say, “hang him; he is a turncoat! he was not true to his profession!” I think God has stirred up even his enemies to hiss at him and laugh at him, because he hath forsaken the way.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“Everybody is willing to praise the goodness of men publicly, but who is there who is as impressed with the goodness of God as he should be?”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress

“Let the Most Blessed be my guide, if it be His will, Unto His gate, into His fold, and up to His holy hill. And let Him never allow me to turn aside or veer, From his free grace and holy ways, whatever I suffer. And let Him gather those of mine whom I have left behind; Lord, please make them be thine, with all their heart and mind.”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress

“The grace He supplies ignites the soul of His people like a roaring fire that, despite the devil’s best efforts, will never be extinguished. This is a difficult concept for man to understand—that even when we are tempted, Christ is doing all the work by supplying the grace we need to stand firm.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: A Readable Modern-Day Version of John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress

“Do you find yourself sometimes able to overcome certain thoughts while at other times find it much more difficult?” asked Prudence. “Yes, but not that often, although when they do occur, those times are truly golden.” Not completely satisfied with the answer, Prudence kept digging. “When you experience those times of overcoming your physical desires, are you aware how you defeated them?” “Oh, absolutely!” Christian said, nodding. “When I think about what I saw at the cross, that will do it. When I look upon my embroidered coat, that will do it. When I look at the certificate that I carry in my chest pocket, that will do it. And when I think about going to the Celestial City, that will do it.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: A Readable Modern-Day Version of John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress

“How many needless steps have I taken with no result? This is exactly what happened to Israel. They were sent back again to wander in the wilderness by way of the Red Sea because of their sin. In the same way, I’m forced to walk this way again in misery that might have been walked in joy had it not been for this sinful sleep. I know I would have been so much farther on my journey by this time! Instead, I must walk these steps three times instead of once. And now it’s starting to get dark, and the day is almost over. I wish I had never slept!”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: A Readable Modern-Day Version of John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress

“endeavor”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress

“Come in, come in; Eternal glory thou shalt win.”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress

“acknowledge myself in fault; and had I been here alone, I had, by sleeping, run the danger of death. I see it is true that the Wise Man saith, “Two are better than one.” Hitherto hath thy company been my help; and thou shalt have a”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“His heart was full of sorrow every step of the way. Sometimes he sighed, sometimes he wept, and he often chided himself for being so foolish as to fall asleep in that place. After all, it had been established for the purpose of modest refreshment from his weariness.”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress

“How many of them have been shamefully put to death? And you consider His service better than mine, even though He has never come from that heavenly place where He is, to rescue any of His servants out of their enemies’ hands? On the other hand, the world knows I am nothing like that. Look at how many times I have delivered those who faithfully served me, either by my power or by the use of fraudulent schemes, even when they were taken by Him and His followers! And so will I rescue you in the same way, Christian.”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress

“Thus far did I come burdened with my sin, No one could ease the grief that I was in, Until I came here. What a place this is! Is this place the beginning of my blessedness? Is this the place the burden fell from my back? Is this the place where the strings that bound it to me broke? Blessed cross! Blessed sepulchre! Blessed rather be The Man who there was put to shame for me!”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress

“True or right fear is revealed in three things. First, it comes with a saving conviction for sin. Also, it drives the soul to lay hold of Christ for salvation. And finally, it births and continues in the soul as a great reverence of God, his Word, and his ways by keeping the soul tender and making it afraid to turn from these things to anything that would dishonor God, break its peace, grieve the Spirit, or cause the enemy to speak reproachfully.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: The Powerful, Timeless Story of How to Live on the Way to Heaven

“Presumption said, Every fat must stand upon his own bottom.”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress: One Man's Search for Eternal Life

“Faithful, you have fulfilled your worthy name. “Faithful” to Him with whom you now are blessed. While pleasure-seekers, men without your faith, Cry out in fear, and cannot hope for rest. Sing, Faithful, sing! Your name will now survive”
― James Thomas, Pilgrim's Progress in Today's English

“(“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze,” says the Lord of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.” – Mal. 4:1) “Just then the bottomless pit opened very near where I stood. Smoke billowed and spewed from the mouth of the pit along with coals of fire and hideous noises. The heavenly attendants were commanded to ‘Gather my wheat into the storehouse.’ (His winnowing fork is in His hand to thoroughly clear His threshing floor, and to gather the wheat into His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. – Luke 3:17) And with that I saw many caught up and carried away into the clouds, but I was left behind. (For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress

“APOLIÓN: “Tú ya has sido infiel en tu servicio a Él, ¿y cómo esperas recibir de Él una recompensa?”. CRISTIANO: “¿En qué, oh Apolión, le he sido infiel a Él?”. APOLIÓN: “Desfalleciste poco después de salir, cuando casi te ahogas en el Pantano del Desaliento; sí fuiste por caminos equivocados para librarte de tu carga, mientras que deberías haber permanecido hasta que tu Príncipe te hubiera despojado de ella; te quedaste dormido y perdiste tu tesoro; y también casi te convenciste para retroceder al ver a los leones; y cuando hablas de tu viaje, y de lo que has visto y oído, en tu interior tienes deseos de vanagloria en todo lo que dices o haces”. CRISTIANO: “Todo eso es cierto, y mucho más que no has dicho; pero el Príncipe a quien sirvo y honro es misericordioso, y listo para perdonar; pero además, esos delitos me poseían en tu país, porque allí los cometí, y me he quejado bajo su peso y los he lamentado, y he obtenido perdón de mi Príncipe”.”
― John Bunyan, El Progreso del Peregrino

“Then have we right thoughts of God, when we think that He knows us better than we know ourselves, and can see sin in us when and where we can see none in ourselves; when we think He knows our inmost thoughts, and that our heart, with all its depths, is always open unto His eyes; also when we think that all our righteousness stinks in His nostrils, and that therefore He cannot abide to see us stand before Him in any confidence, even in all our best performances.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“Porque cuando el pecado cobra conciencia de su condición perdida, surgen en su alma muchos temores que lo desaniman, y se juntan y vienen a parar en este lugar: y tal es la razón por lo que este suelo está en tan malas condiciones.”
― Juan Bunyan, El progreso del peregrino para todos

“there is but little of this faithful dealing with men now-a-days, and that makes religion to stink so in the nostrils of many, as it doth; for they are these talkative fools whose religion is only in word, and are debauched and vain in their conversation, that (being so much admitted into the fellowship of the godly) do puzzle the world, blemish Christianity, and grieve the sincere.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream