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
John Bunyan quotes about
honey lion meet nest next overcome shall time within
Temptations, when we first meet them, are like a lion that roared at Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.
walked wilderness
As I walked through the wilderness of this world.
prayer sacrifice soul
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.
prayer heart asking
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
prayer world had-enough
The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.
mercy-of-god soul grace
...Great sins do draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ, when showed to the soul, appears most high and mighty...
should word-of-god diabolical
Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.
blessed perfect judging
There is a warning here for true pilgrims. Beware of the talker, but also be careful not to judge too quickly those whom God has blessed with both genuine grace and a fluency to speak of divine mercy in ways more eloquent than others. The proof is in the life-not a perfect life, but a life that both delights in divine truth and magnifies God, the only giver of the sovereign grace that always produces the truly fruitful, fragrant life.
denial destruction precipice
The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction
disappointment affliction god-love
In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.
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.
contentment littles
I am content with what I have, little be it, or much.