Quotes from John Bunyan

Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.

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

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.

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

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.

The more he cast away the more he had.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

This hill, though high, I covet to ascend; The difficulty will not me offend. For I perceive the way to life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear. Better, though difficult, the right way to go, Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.

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

a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.

Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.

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

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

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

I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?

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

The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.

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

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.