John Bunyan Quotes - Page 3

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.

I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.

To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.

He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.

Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there is no saving... Where there is grafting there will always be a cutting, the graft must be let in with a wound; to stick it onto the outside or to tie it on with a string would be of no use. Heart must be set to heart and back to back or there will be no sap from root to branch. And this, I say, must be done by a wound, by a cut.

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

Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon 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!

If you release me today, I'll preach tomorrow.

Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.

Be of good cheer, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole.

I preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.

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.

Run when I can, walk when I cannot run, and creep when I cannot walk.

The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.

There is a warning here for true pilgrims. Beware of the talker, but also be careful not to judge too quickly those whom God has blessed with both genuine grace and a fluency to speak of divine mercy in ways more eloquent than others. The proof is in the life-not a perfect life, but a life that both delights in divine truth and magnifies God, the only giver of the sovereign grace that always produces the truly fruitful, fragrant life.

I am content with what I have, little be it, or much.

Talkative represents the man or woman who delights in talking about divine things but has only theoretical knowledge of such things. No actual personal heart experience correlates to the matters they love to discuss so eloquently. They are often highly esteemed by others, but those closest to them would quickly betray a life out-of-sync with their words. The mask fashioned by fluency with all subjects divine hides their real life.

Men, even the elect, have too many infirmities to come to Christ without help from heaven; inviting will not do.

Faith receiveth the promise, embraceth it, and comforteth the soul unspeakably with it. Faith is so great an artist in arguing and reasoning with the soul, that it will bring over the hardest heart that it hath to deal with. It will bring to my remembrance at once, both my vileness against God, and his goodness towards me; it will show me, that though I deserve not to breathe in the air, yet that God will have me an heir of glory.

Take heed of driving so hard after this world, as to hinder thyself and family from those duties towards God, which thou art by grace obliged to; as private prayer, reading the scriptures, and Christian conference. It is a base thing for men so to spend themselves and families after this world, as that they disengage their heart to God's worship.

The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.

I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.

There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent.

The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction