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.
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...
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.
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.
bible christian men
Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.
deliverance chains my-own
I preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.
chosen
You have chosen the roughest road, but it leads straight to the hilltops.
ungrateful forget saviour
He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.