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
grace small-gifts great-gifts
Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.
prayer forget mercy
In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies.
today tomorrow release
If you release me today, I'll preach tomorrow.
cities stupidity intelligence
I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.
doubt despair castles
There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.
prayer blessed heaven
To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.
jesus-christ answers-to-prayer god-answers-prayers
Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
jesus father mean
All that the Father giveth me SHALL COME... Here, therefore, the Lord Jesus positively determineth to put forth such a sufficiency of all grace as shall effectually perform this promise. They shall come; that is, he will CAUSE them to come, by infusing of an effectual blessing into all the means that shall be used to that end.
dream book sleep
As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a den; and I laid me down in that place to sleep: and as I slept I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and behold I saw a man clothed with rags, standing in a certain place, with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. I looked, and saw him open the book, and read therein; and as he read, he wept and trembled: and not being able longer to contain, he brake out with a lamentable cry; saying, 'What shall I do?'
depression men iron
I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.
kingdoms spirit salvation
Beware of resting in the word of the kingdom, without the spirit and power of the kingdom of that gospel, for the gospel coming in word only saves nobody, for the kingdom of God or the gospel, where it comes to salvation, is not in word but in power.
life-and-death risk fear-of-death
To go back is nothing but death; but to go forward is fear of death and life everlasting beyond.
punishment said cruelty
Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.
sleep heart speak
Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.