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
behold
So I awoke, and behold it was a dream.
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.
christian loss men
The reason why the Christians in this day are at such a loss as to some things is that they are contented with what comes from man's mouth, without searching and kneeling before God to know of Him the truth of things.
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 sacrifice soul
Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
prayer world had-enough
The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.
prayer heart knees
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.
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.
christian flower fall
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.
christian lying heart
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.
christian found worst
I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.