John Bunyan
John Bunyan
John Bunyanwas an English writer and Baptist preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress. In addition to The Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth28 November 1628
warrior one-day wish
I live because I am a Warrior and because I wish one day to be in the company of [She] for whom I have fought so hard
ill wells
Hope is never ill when faith is well.
christian sea faithful
Let dissolution come when it will, it can do the Christian no harm, for it will be but a passage out of a prison into a palace; out of a sea of troubles into a haven of rest; out of a crowd of enemies, to an innumerable company of true, loving, and faithful friends; out of shame, reproach, and contempt, into exceeding great and eternal glory.
strong prayer heart
It is not the mouth that is the main thing to be looked at in prayer, but whether the heart is so full of affection and earnestness in prayer with God, that it is impossible to express their sense and desire; for then a man desires indeed, when his desires are so strong, many, and mighty, that all the words, tears, and groans that can come from the heart, cannot utter them.
educational generosity cast-away
The more he cast away, the more he had.
wheat use lord
The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.
temptation looks look-up
Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.
forgiveness children degrees
No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
grace no-fear hell
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.
easter justice laughing
Dost thou understand me, sinful soul? He wrestled with justice, that thou mightest have rest; He wept and mourned, that thou mightest laugh and rejoice; He was betrayed, that thou mightest go free; was apprehended, that thou mightest escape; He was condemned, that thou mightest be justified; and was killed, that thou mightest live; He wore a crown of thorns, that thou mightest wear a crown of glory; and was nailed to the cross, with His arms wide open, to show with what freeness all His merits shall be bestowed on the coming soul; and how heartily He will receive it into His bosom?
contentment littles
I am content with what I have, little be it, or much.
affliction may sin
Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.
christian art prayer
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.
love shoes earth
I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.