John Bunyan famous quotes

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

#Motivational #Success #Perseverance

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

#Jesus #Prayer #Men

If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.
-- John Bunyan

#Matter #Life Is #Praise

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
-- John Bunyan

#Prayer #Sacrifice #Soul

Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.
-- John Bunyan

#Bible #Christian #Men

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
-- John Bunyan

#Prayer #Heart #Worship

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

#Running #Morning

Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.
-- John Bunyan

#Christian #Flower #Fall

Grace can pardon our ungodliness and justify us with Christ's righteousness; it can put the Spirit of Jesus Christ within us; it can help us when we are down; it can heal us when we are wounded; it can multiply pardons, as we through frailty multiply transgressions.
-- John Bunyan

#Jesus #Grace #Spirit

Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.
-- John Bunyan

#Prayer #Soul #Pouring

No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.
-- John Bunyan

#Christian #Men #Temptation

You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.
-- John Bunyan

#Prayer #Sacrifice #Soul

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.
-- John Bunyan

#Men #World #Obedience

And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth!
-- John Bunyan

#Heaven #World #Earth

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

#Eye #Moss #Prison

He that is down needs fear no fall. He that is low, no pride; He that is humble, ever shall have God to be his Guide.
-- John Bunyan

#Fall #Humble #Pride

In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.
-- John Bunyan

#Disappointment #Affliction #God Love

Now while they were thus drawing towards the gate, behold, a company of the heavenly host came to meet them; to whom it was said by the other two Shining Ones, These are the men that have loved our Lord when they were in the world, and that have left all for his holy name; and he hath sent us to fetch them, and we have brought them thus far on their desired journey, that they may go in and look their Redeemer in the face with joy. Then the heavenly host gave a great shout, saying, 'Blessed are they that are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb.'
-- John Bunyan

#Blessed #Journey #Men

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

#Jail #Butchery #Ends

You have chosen the roughest road, but it leads straight to the hilltops.
-- John Bunyan

#Chosen

Sincerity carries the soul in all simplicity to open its heart to God.
-- John Bunyan

#Heart #Simplicity #Soul

He that is down needs fear no fall.
-- John Bunyan

#Fear #Failure #Fall

Fullness to such a burden is That go on pilgrimage; Here little, and hereafter bliss, Is best from age to age.
-- John Bunyan

#Age #Goes On #Littles

Though the world disregard the society of God's children now, yet there is a time coming in which they would be glad to have the least company with them.
-- John Bunyan

#Children #Would Be #World

Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.
-- John Bunyan

#Sin #Christ #Righteousness

Though it be said that faith cometh by hearing, yet it is the Spirit that worketh faith in the heart through hearing, or else they are not profited by hearing.
-- John Bunyan

#Heart #Hearing #Spirit

Such is the effect of the grace of God in the heart of a pilgrim; while on one hand he sees the propensity of his evil nature to every sin which has been committed by others, and is humbled; he also confesses, that, by no power of his own, is he preserved, but ever gives the glory to the God of all grace, by whose power alone he is kept from falling.
-- John Bunyan

#Fall #Heart #Hands

Here is the life of prayer, when in or with the Spirit, a man being made sensible of sin, and how to come to the Lord for mercy; he comes, I say, in the strength of the Spirit, and crieth Father. That one word spoken in faith is better than a thousand prayers, as men call them, written and read, in a formal, cold, lukewarm way.
-- John Bunyan

#Prayer #Father #Men

It is sad to see how the most of men neglect their precious souls, turning their backs upon the glorious gospel, and little minding a crucified Jesus, when, in the meanwhile, their bodies are well provided for, their estates much regarded, and the things of this present life are highly prized, as if the darling was of less value than a clod of earth; an immortal soul, than a perishing body; a precious Saviour, than unsatisfying creatures.
-- John Bunyan

#Jesus #Men #Soul

Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.
-- John Bunyan

#Sweet #Sleep #Insomnia

The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction
-- John Bunyan

#Denial #Destruction

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.
-- John Bunyan

#Air #Easy #Mark

He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.
-- John Bunyan

#Ungrateful #Forget #Saviour

Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.
-- John Bunyan

#Heaven #Way #Saws

a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.
-- John Bunyan

#Men #Mad #Charity

It is possible to learn all about the mysteries of the Bible and never be affected by it in one's soul. Great knowledge is not enough.
-- John Bunyan

#Inspiration #Soul #Mystery

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

#Heart #Cutting #Men

No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
-- John Bunyan

#Forgiveness #Children #Degrees

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled with God.
-- John Bunyan

#Prayer #Mean #Heart

Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.
-- John Bunyan

#Heart #Knowing #Profound

I saw, moreover, that it was not my good frame of heart that made my righteousness better, nor my bad frame that made my righteousness worse; for my righteousness was Jesus Christ himself, the same yesterday and today and forever.
-- John Bunyan

#Jesus #Heart #Yesterday

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

#Traitor #Given #Allegiance

The best prayers have often more groans than words.
-- John Bunyan

#Prayer #Best Prayer

Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.
-- John Bunyan

#Prayer #Temptation #Nests

The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.
-- John Bunyan

#Lying #Heart #Men

The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.
-- John Bunyan

#Prayer #World #Had Enough

The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.
-- John Bunyan

#Men #World #He Man

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

#Grace #No Fear #Hell

There hath not one tear dropped from thy tender eye against thy lusts, the love of this world, or for more communion with Jesus Christ, but as it is now in the bottle of God.
-- John Bunyan

#Jesus #Eye #Lust

Take heed of driving so hard after this world, as to hinder thyself and family from those duties towards God, which thou art by grace obliged to; as private prayer, reading the scriptures, and Christian conference. It is a base thing for men so to spend themselves and families after this world, as that they disengage their heart to God's worship.
-- John Bunyan

#Christian #Art #Prayer

If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes the heart yet harder and harder.
-- John Bunyan

#Christian #Lying #Heart

A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.
-- John Bunyan

#Prayer #Thankfulness #Spirit

Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.
-- John Bunyan

#Should #Word Of God

To run and work the law commands, but gives us neither feet nor hands. But better news the gospel brings, it bids us fly and gives us wings.
-- John Bunyan

#Running #Hands #Law

Prayer is a shield to the soul
-- John Bunyan

#Prayer #Soul #Shields

The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.
-- John Bunyan

#Use #Wheat #Lord

Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!
-- John Bunyan

#Father #Angel #Joy

One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
-- John Bunyan

#Ships #Sin #Leaks

The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
-- John Bunyan

#Prayer #Heart #Knees

The more he cast away, the more he had.
-- John Bunyan

#Educational #Cast Away #Casts

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
-- John Bunyan

#Peace #Feet #Mind

…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

#Christian #Saws #Mouths

There is enough sin in my best prayer to send the whole world to Hell.
-- John Bunyan

#Prayer #World #Sin

Hope is never ill when faith is well.
-- John Bunyan

#Ill #Wells

Christian, let God's distinguishing love to you be a motive to you to fear Him greatly. He has put His fear in your heart, and may not have given that blessing to your neighbor, perhaps not to your husband, your wife, your child, or your parent. Oh, what an obligation should this thought lay upon your heart to greatly fear the Lord! Remember also that this fear of the Lord is His treasure, a choice jewel, given only to favorites, and to those who are greatly beloved.
-- John Bunyan

#Christian #Letting Go #Husband

A tender heart is a wakeful, watchful heart. It watches against sin in the soul, sin in the family, sin in the calling, sin in spiritual duties and performances.
-- John Bunyan

#Spiritual #Heart #Soul