“Dost thou love picking meat? Or wouldst thou see
A man in the clouds, and have him speak to thee?”
“for my Master, you must know, is one of very tender bowels, specially to them that are afraid.”
Source: The Pilgrim's Progress
“Grace is king.”
Source: Prayer
“By his sacrifice he has made way for grace to run like a river into the world.”
Source: Prayer
“Many times I am forced in my prayers, first to beg of God that he would take mine heart, and set it on himself in Christ, and when it is there, that he would keep it there.”
Source: Prayer
“What God says is best, indeed is best, though all men in the world are against it. Seeing, then, that God prefers his religion; seeing God prefers a tender conscience; seeing they that make themselves fools for the kingdom of heaven are wisest; and that the poor man that loveth Christ is richer than the greatest man in the world that hates him: Shame, depart, thou art an enemy to my salvation.”
“*' Those," sail! he, " that thou gavcst me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the Scripture n)ight be fulfilled." John xvii. 12
And none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.”
Source: Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ
“Those," said! he, " that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled." John xvii. 12
And none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.”
Source: Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ
“Thus far did I come laden with my sin;
Nor could aught ease the grief that I was in
Till I came hither: What a place is This!
Must here be the beginning of my bliss?
Must here the burden fall from off my back?
Must here the strings that bound it to me crack?
Blest Cross! blest Sepulchre! blest rather be
The Man that was put to shame for me”
Source: Pilgrim's Progress
“Another part or piece,' said Diabolus, 'of mine excellent armour, is a dumb and prayerless spirit, a spirit that scorns to cry for mercy, let the danger be ever so great; therefore be you, my Mansoul, sure that you make use of this.”
Source: The Holy War
“O my Mansoul, I have lived, I have died, I live, and I will die no more for thee. I live that thou mayest not die. Because I live thou shalt live also; I reconciled thee to my Father by the blood of My cross, and being reconciled thou shalt live through me. I will pray for thee, I will fight for thee, I will yet do thee good.
Nothing can hurt thee but sin; nothing can grieve Me but sin; nothing can make thee base before thy foes but sin; take heed of sin, my Mansoul.”
Source: The Holy War
“Whoso beset him round
With dismal stories
Do but themselves confound;
His strength the more is.”
Source: The Pilgrim's Progress
“On the Day of Judgment , life and death are not determined by the world but by God's wisdom and law”
Source: The Pilgrim's Progress
“Queres acaso te ver livre da melancolia?
Queres prazer, mas longe da louca agonia?
Queres ler enigmas, e sua precisa solução,
Ou preferes te afogar na tua contemplação?
Queres a carne? Será não preferes, destarte,
Ver um homem nas nuvens, ouvindo falar-te?
Anseias ver-te num sonho, mas sem dormir?
Ou não preferes a um só tempo chorar e rir?
Não te atrai a ti mesmo te perderes sem dano?
Pra depois te achares sem passe sobre-humano?
Queres tu mesmo ler, sem sequer saber o quê,
Sabendo, porém por essas linhas mesmas que lês,
Se estás ou não abençoado? Ah, vem, então,
E abre meu livro, uma só mente, um só coração.”
Source: O Peregrino
“El ayo quiere que Pasión espere hasta el principio del año venidero para recibir sus mejores cosas; mas Pasión todo lo quiere al momento. Paciencia al contrario, esta resignado esperar.”
Source: The Pilgrim's Progress
“Then Apollyon straddled quite over the whole breadth of the way, and said "I am void of fear in this matter. Prepare thyself to die; for I swear by my infernal den, that thou go no farther: here will I spill thy soul.”
“Then have we right thoughts of God, when we think that He knows us better than we know ourselves, and can see sin in us when and where we can see none in ourselves; when we think He knows our inmost thoughts, and that our heart, with all its depths, is always open unto His eyes; also when we think that all our righteousness stinks in His nostrils, and that therefore He cannot abide to see us stand before Him in any confidence, even in all our best performances.”
Source: The Pilgrim's Progress
“Seeming delays in God are no tokens of his displeasure; he may hide his face from his dearest saints. He loves to keep his people praying, and to find them ever knocking at the gate of heaven.”
Source: Prayer
“you dwell, said he, in the city of Destruction, the place also where I was born: I see it to be so; and dying there, sooner or later, you will sink lower than the grave, into a place that burns with fire and brimstone: be content, good neighbours, and go along with me.”
Source: The Pilgrim's Progress
“This hill, though high, I covet to ascend;
The difficulty will not me offend.
For I perceive the way to life lies here.
Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear.
Better, though difficult, the right way to go,
Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.”
Source: The Pilgrim's Progress
“Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.”
Source: The Holy War Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus, for the Regaining of the Metropolis of the World, Or The Losing and Taking Again of the Town of Mansoul
“Wherefore, though the Christian, as a Christian, is the only man at liberty, as called thereunto of God; yet his liberty is limited to things that are good: he is not licensed thereby to indulge the flesh.”
Source: The Works of that Eminent Servant of Christ, Mr. John Bunyan: The holy war. The desire of the righteous granted. The saint's privilege and profit. Christ a compleat saviour. The saints knowledge of Christ's love. A discourse of the house of the forest of Lebanon. Of Anti-christ and his ruin. Saved by grace. Christian behaviour. A discourse touching prayer. The strait gate. Some gospel-truths opened. A vindication of gospel-truths opened. Light for them that sit in darkness. Instruction for the i
“Such is the effect of the grace of God in the heart of a pilgrim; while on one hand he sees the propensity of his evil nature to every sin which has been committed by others, and is humbled; he also confesses, that, by no power of his own, is he preserved, but ever gives the glory to the God of all grace, by whose power alone he is kept from falling.”
Source: The Select Works of John Bunyan: Containing the Pilgrim's Progress ... with a Life of the Author
“The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.”
“A comely sight indeed it is to see, a world of blossoms on an apple tree.”
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: Containing the Pilgrimage of His Wife and Children, and Their Safe Arrival
“The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.”
“It is sad to see how the most of men neglect their precious souls, turning their backs upon the glorious gospel, and little minding a crucified Jesus, when, in the meanwhile, their bodies are well provided for, their estates much regarded, and the things of this present life are highly prized, as if the darling was of less value than a clod of earth; an immortal soul, than a perishing body; a precious Saviour, than unsatisfying creatures.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)
“He that doth righteousness; that is, righteousness which the gospel calleth so, is righteous; that is, precedent to, or before he doth that righteousness. For he doth not say, he shall make his person righteous by acts of righteousness that he shall do; for then an evil tree may bear good fruit, yea, and make itself good by doing so; but he saith, He that doth righteousness is righteous; as he saith, He that doth righteousness is born of him.”
Source: The Works of that Eminent Servant of Christ, Mr. John Bunyan: Grace abounding to the chief of sinners. A confession of my faith, and a reason of my practice. Differences in judgment about water-baptism, no bar to communion. Peaceable principles and true. The doctrine of the law and grace unfolded. The pilgrim's progress. The Jerusalem sinner saved. The heavenly footman. Solomon's temple spiritualized. The acceptable sacrifice. Sighs from hell. Come and welcome to Jesus Christ. A discourse upon t
“He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.”
“At the day of Doom men shall be judged according to their fruits. It will not be said then, did you believe? But, were you doers or talkers only?”
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (Illustrated Edition)
“It gave me no pleasure to see people drink in my opinions if they seemed ignorant of Jesus Christ and the value of being saved by Him. Sound conviction for sin, especially the sin of unbelief, and a heart set on fire to be saved by Christ, with a strong yearning for a truly sanctified soul-this was what delighted me; those were the souls I considered blessed.”
“I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.”
Source: The Pilgrim’s Progress Simplified: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index
“The heart, when broken, is like sweet gums and spices when beaten; for as such cast their fragrant scent into the nostrils of men, so the heart, when broken, casts its sweet smell into the nostrils of God.”
Source: The works of John Bunyan: With an introduction to each treatise, notes, and a sketch of his life, times, and contemporaries
“Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)
“Humility is the light of the understanding.”
“If you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the Man Christ without, and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, you are not able to divide the word aright; but contrariwise, you corrupt the word of God.”
Source: The Riches of Bunyan
“Therefore if mine enemy hunger, let me feed him; if he thirst, let me give him drink. Now in order to do this, (1) We must see good in that, in which other men can see none. (2) We must pass by those injuries that other men would revenge. (3) We must show we have grace, and that we are made to bear what other men are not acquainted with. (4) Many of our graces are kept alive, by those very things that are the death of other men's souls.... The devil, (they say) is good when he is pleased; but Christ and His saints, when displeased.”
“I am content with what I have, little be it, or much.”
Source: The Pilgrim's Progress
“Who would true valour see,
Let him come hither;
One here will constant be,
Come wind, come weather
There’s no discouragement
Shall make him once relent
His first avowed intent
To be a pilgrim.”
“Fullness to such a burden is
That go on pilgrimage;
Here little, and hereafter bliss,
Is best from age to age.”
Source: The Pilgrims Progress: From this World to that which is to Come
“Though the world disregard the society of God's children now, yet there is a time coming in which they would be glad to have the least company with them.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)
“A tender heart is a wakeful, watchful heart. It watches against sin in the soul, sin in the family, sin in the calling, sin in spiritual duties and performances.”
Source: The Acceptable Sacrifice
“Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.”
“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.”
Source: The Select Works of John Bunyan: Containing the Pilgrim's Progress ... with a Life of the Author
“Be of good cheer, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole.”
Source: Pilgrim's Progress in Today's English
“If you are not a praying person, you are not a Christian.”
“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.”
“If you release me today, I'll preach tomorrow.”
“In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies.”
Source: Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners ... The twelfth edition, with his character
“His love is what makes us live, love, sing, and praise forever.”
