A collection of quotes and sayings by John Bunyan on prayer, spirit, memorable, righteousness, bible, God, pilgrim, progress, lived, poor, sin, destroy and heart.
John Bunyan was an eminent Puritan preacher and prolific English writer best-known as the author of ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’, the Christian allegory. He expressed his thoughts in approximately 60 titles - a number of them extended sermons. He became a part of Parliamentary Army in the initial stage of the ‘English Civil War’. His books, thoughts, experiences and writings talked about taking the path of Christianity and how to face the challenges on the road to spirituality. We have rounded some inspirational, motivational and thought-provoking quotable quotes and sayings by John Bunyan on courage, words, sleep, sin, succeed, comfort, golden, despair, doubting, understood and more which have been curated from his teachings, thoughts, writings, preaching, work and life. Let us browse through the quotes and thoughts by John Bunyan that hold a world of wisdom.
This hill though high I covent ascend;
The difficulty will not me offend;
For I perceive the way of life lies here.
Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear.
My name is now Christian, but my name used to be Graceless.
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...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...
Now may this little Book a blessing be
To those that love this little Book, and me:
And may its Buyer have no cause to say,
His money is but lost, or thrown away.
Whoso beset him round
With dismal stories
Do but themselves confound;
His strength the more is.
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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.
His basic message is meant to put steel in their backbone and to encourage them to run the race and seek the prize of Heaven. He comes to remind them that they have an enemy who seeks to destroy them.
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Destruction. This pathway also represents a way that is not the straight way, also a way with a wide variety of many other religious and social philosophies.
Danger
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They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?
I would rather go through this valley to find the honor that true wise men seek than choose those things that this man and his worldly friends think most worthy of our affections."
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For instance, I have seen many cry out against sin in the pulpit who yet abide it well enough in their own heart, home, and manner of life.
"Potiphar's
Admittance into the true church of Christ is based on regeneration, not merely on an affirmation of a creed or doctrine. The
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The man that seeks the everlasting prize; It shows you whence he comes, wither he goes. What he leaves undone; also what he does. It also shows you how he runs and runs. Till he unto the gate of glory comes.
Why, man! Christ is so hid in God from the natural apprehensions of the flesh, that he cannot by any man be savingly known, unless God the Father reveals him to them.
As I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Denn; And I laid me down in that place to sleep: And as I slept I dreamed a Dream.
Wake up, see your own wretchedness, and fly to the Lord Jesus. He is the righteousness of God, for He Himself is God. Only by believing in His righteousness will you be delivered from condemnation.
I’d advise you, then, to quickly get rid of your burden; for until then you’ll never be settled in your mind or enjoy the benefits of the blessings that God has given you.
Your impression of him as a respectable man brings to my mind the work of a painter whose pictures show attractively at a distance but unpleasantly up close."
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The bothersome noise of religious talk grows irksome when laid upon the living score of discordant behavior. Talkative's
