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
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 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...
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.
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.