John Bunyan Quotes

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 my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.

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

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

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.

The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.

Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.

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

If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself, they won't do whatever they want, they'll do whatever He wants.

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

No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.

In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.

I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.

In prayer, it is better to have heart without words, than words without heart. Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin entice a man to cease from prayer. The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end

Hope is never ill when faith is well.

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.

The best prayers have often more groans than words.

He that is down needs fear no fall. He that is low, no pride; He that is humble, ever shall have God to be his Guide.

Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.

Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.

To run and work the law commands, but gives us neither feet nor hands. But better news the gospel brings, it bids us fly and gives us wings.

The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver.