John Bunyan Quotes (52 Quotes)





    He that is down needs fear no fall; He that is low, no pride.

    They are for religion when in rags and contempt, but I am for him when he walks in his golden slippers in the sunshine and with applause.


    My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

    Every fat vat must stand upon his bottom.

    In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a 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

    Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, the slight of His power, and the contempt of His love

    One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.

    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

    There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

    Then fancies flee away I'll labor night and day To be a pilgrim.

    When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

    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.

    So soon as the man overtook me, he was but a word and a blow.

    Who would true valor see, Let him come hither.

    He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

    As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a Den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep and, as I slept, I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and behold, I saw a man clothed with rags, standing in a certain place, with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. I looked, and saw him open the book, and read therein and, as he read, he wept, and trembled and, not being able longer to contain, he brake out with a lamentable cry, saying, What shall I do.

    Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer

    Religion is the best armor in the world, But the worst cloak.

    If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

    No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness

    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.


    Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.

    He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find him the rest of the day

    A man there was, tho some did count him mad, The more he cast away, the more he had.


    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.

    Read and read again, and do not despair of help to understand the will and mind of God though you think they are fast locked up from you. Neither trouble your heads though you have not commentaries and exposition. Pray and read, read and pray for a littl.

    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.

    And so I penned It down, until at last it came to be, For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.

    Some said, 'John, print it' others said 'Not so.' Some said, 'It might do good' others said, 'No.'

    Hope. I am sorry that I was so foolish, and am made to wonder that I am not now as Lot's wife, for wherein was the difference betwixt her sin and mine She only looked back and I had a desire to go see. Let grace be adored, and let me be ashamed that ever such a thing should be in mine heart.

    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.


    Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

    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.


    I could also have stepped into a style much higher than this in which I have here discoursed, and could have adorned all things more than here I have seemed to do, but I dare not.

    Then I saw there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.

    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.

    I saw a man clothed with rags ... a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.

    It beareth the name of Vanity-Fair, because the town where 'tis kept, is lighter than vanity.

    The name of the one was Obstinate and the name of the other was Pliable.

    The gentleman's name was Mr. Worldly-Wise-Man.


    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.


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