John Bunyan Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

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

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

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

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

Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.

But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower

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

The best prayers have often more groans than words.

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

Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.

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.

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

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

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

It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be received with the same grace, whether it be given by the poorest of saints or the most educated person.

It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled.

It is possible to learn all about the mysteries of the Bible and never be affected by it in one's soul. Great knowledge is not enough.

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.

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.

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

The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction

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

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.

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

The more he cast away, the more he had.

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.

An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop.

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

It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.

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

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

Hope is never ill when faith is well.

You have chosen the roughest road, but it leads straight to the hilltops.

Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

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

Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.

As your faith is, such your hope will be. Hope is never ill when faith is well, nor strong if faith be weak.

Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.

Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.