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
dark clouds water
Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.
fire soul world
Riches and power, what is there more in the world? For money answereth all things-that is, all but soul concerns. It can neither be a price for souls while here, nor can that, with all the forces of strength, recover one out of hell fire.
christian lying ornaments
Therefore, I bind these lies and slanderous accusations to my person as an ornament; it belongs to my Christian profession to be vilified, slandered, reproached and reviled, and since all this is nothing but that, as God and my conscience testify, I rejoice in being reproached for Christ's sake.
love-is forever his-love
His love is what makes us live, love, sing, and praise forever.
fruit satisfied
I could not be satisfied unless some fruits did appear in my work.
jesus cheer christ
Be of good cheer, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole.
names vanity towns
It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity.
spiritual heart soul
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.
courage valour
Who would true Valour see, Let him come hither
age goes-on littles
Fullness to such a burden is That go on pilgrimage; Here little, and hereafter bliss, Is best from age to age.
wise men together
Atten. Pray of what disease did Mr. Badman die, for now I perceive we are come up to his death? Wise. I cannot so properly say that he died of one disease, for there were many that had consented, and laid their heads together to bring him to his end. He was dropsical, he was consumptive, he was surfeited, was gouty, and, as some say, he had a tang of the pox in his bowels. Yet the captain of all these men of death that came against him to take him away, was the consumption, for it was that that brought him down to the grave.
christian praying persons
If you are not a praying person, you are not a Christian.
humility light understanding
Humility is the light of the understanding.
grace small-gifts great-gifts
Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.