“Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.”
“In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.”
Source: The Complete Works
“The more he cast away, the more he had.”
“What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.”
Source: The Pilgrim's Progress: From this World to that which is to Come. Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream. In Two Parts
“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.”
Source: Christian Behaviour: A Holy Life, the Beauty of Christianity, the Fear of God, and an Exhortation to Unity and Peace to which is Added a Caution Against Sin
“Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.”
Source: The Works of John Bunyan: Experimental, doctrinal, and practical
“I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.”
Source: Pilgrim's Progress in Today's English
“Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.”
Source: The Whole Works of John Bunyan ...: Reprinted from the Author's Own Editions
“Christian, let God's distinguishing love to you be a motive to you to fear Him greatly. He has put His fear in your heart, and may not have given that blessing to your neighbor, perhaps not to your husband, your wife, your child, or your parent. Oh, what an obligation should this thought lay upon your heart to greatly fear the Lord! Remember also that this fear of the Lord is His treasure, a choice jewel, given only to favorites, and to those who are greatly beloved.”
“Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.”
“And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth!”
Source: The Works of John Bunyan: With an Introduction to Each Treatise, Notes, and a Sketch of His Life, Times, and Contemporaries ...
“Now while they were thus drawing towards the gate, behold, a company of the heavenly host came to meet them; to whom it was said by the other two Shining Ones, These are the men that have loved our Lord when they were in the world, and that have left all for his holy name; and he hath sent us to fetch them, and we have brought them thus far on their desired journey, that they may go in and look their Redeemer in the face with joy. Then the heavenly host gave a great shout, saying, 'Blessed are they that are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb.'”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)
“Dost thou understand me, sinful soul? He wrestled with justice, that thou mightest have rest; He wept and mourned, that thou mightest laugh and rejoice; He was betrayed, that thou mightest go free; was apprehended, that thou mightest escape; He was condemned, that thou mightest be justified; and was killed, that thou mightest live; He wore a crown of thorns, that thou mightest wear a crown of glory; and was nailed to the cross, with His arms wide open, to show with what freeness all His merits shall be bestowed on the coming soul; and how heartily He will receive it into His bosom?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)
“He that is down needs fear no fall.”
“Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!”
Source: The works of that eminent servant of Christ, John Bunyan: minister of the gospel and formerly Pastor of a Congregatin at Bedford
“Grace can pardon our ungodliness and justify us with Christ's righteousness; it can put the Spirit of Jesus Christ within us; it can help us when we are down; it can heal us when we are wounded; it can multiply pardons, as we through frailty multiply transgressions.”
Source: The Riches of Bunyan
“I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.”
Source: The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come. With notes by J. Bradford
“Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.”
“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.”
Source: The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come: delivered under the similitude of a dream ... In three parts
“[Mr. Gifford] made it much his business to deliver the people of God from all those false and unsound rests that by nature we are prone to make and take to our souls. He pressed us to take special heed that we took not up any truth upon trust - as from this or that, or any other man or men - but to cry mightily to God that He would convince us of the reality thereof, and set us down therein by his own Spirit in the holy word.”
Source: The Whole Works of John Bunyan ...: Reprinted from the Author's Own Editions
“To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.”
“If thou hast sinned, lie not down without repentance; for the want of repentance, after one has sinned, makes the heart yet harder and harder.”
“No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.”
Source: The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to Come,: Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream. Wherein is Discovered the Manner of His Setting Out, His Dangerous Journey, and Safe Arrival at the Desired Country
“The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)
“The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.”
Source: The Select Works of John Bunyan: Containing the Pilgrim's Progress ... with a Life of the Author
“To go back is nothing but death; but to go forward is fear of death and life everlasting beyond.”
Source: The pilgrim's progress. With a life of Bunyan by J.M. Wilson, and notes abridged from T. Scott
“No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)
“Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.”
Source: The Pilgrim’s Progress Simplified: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index
“I seek a place that can never be destroyed, one that is pure, and that fadeth not away, and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there, to be given, at the time appointed, to them that seek it with all their heart. Read it so, if you will, in my book.”
Source: The Pilgrim's Progress
“For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.”
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (Illustrated Edition)
“The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.”
Source: The Pilgrims' Progress: From this World, to that which is to Come. Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream. In Two Parts
“The law, instead of cleansing the heart from sin, doth revive it, put strength into, and increase it in the soul, even as it doth discover and forbid it, for it doth not give power to subdue.”
Source: The Pilgrim’s Progress Simplified: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index
“Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.”
Source: The Pilgrim ́s Progress
“God speaks once, yea twice, yet Man perceiveth it not, in a Dream, in a Vision of the night, when deep Sleep falleth upon men, in slumbering upon the bed. We need not, when abed, to lie awake to talk with God, he can visit us while we sleep, and cause us then to hear his Voice. 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”
Source: The Pilgrim's Progress: In Two Parts
“I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.”
Source: Grace Abounding with Other Spiritual Autobiographies
“Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.”
“The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver.”
Source: The works of that eminent servant of Christ, John Bunyan: minister of the gospel and formerly Pastor of a Congregatin at Bedford
“To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.”
Source: The works of that eminent servant of Christ, John Bunyan: minister of the gospel and formerly Pastor of a Congregatin at Bedford
“The name of the Slough was Despond.”
“To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.”
Source: The works of that eminent servant of Christ, John Bunyan: minister of the gospel and formerly Pastor of a Congregatin at Bedford
“If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.”
Source: The Pilgrim’s Progress Simplified: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index
“Every fat (vat) must stand upon its bottom.”
Source: The Pilgrim's Progress and Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
“Breathes there a man, whose judgment clear Can others teach their course to steer, Yet run himself life's mad career Wild as the wave?”
“But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower”
“Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy.”
“Nae man can tether time nor tide.”
“The life blood streaming thro' my heart, Or my more dear immortal part, Is not more fondly dear.”
“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.”
Source: The Complete Works
“The same yesterday, today, and forever.”
Source: Moody Classics Complete Set
“The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand (one day) a book of Martin Luther's ; it was his Comment on the Galatians! ... I found my condition in his experience so largely and profoundly handled, as if his book had been written out of my heart ... I do prefer this book of Martin Luther upon the Galatians, excepting the Holy Bible, before all the books that ever I have seen, as most fit for a wounded conscience.”
