Quotes from John Bunyan

I seek a place that can never be destroyed, one that is pure, and that fadeth not away, and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there, to be given, at the time appointed, to them that seek it with all their heart. Read it so, if you will, in my book.

My name is now Christian, but my name used to be Graceless.

Just as Christian came up to the Cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, fell from off his back, and began to tumble down the hill, and so it continued to do till it came to the mouth of the sepulchre. There it fell in, and I saw it no more!

Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.

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.

What God says is best, indeed is best, though all men in the world are against it. Seeing, then, that God prefers his religion; seeing God prefers a tender conscience; seeing they that make themselves fools for the kingdom of heaven are wisest; and that the poor man that loveth Christ is richer than the greatest man in the world that hates him: Shame, depart, thou art an enemy to my salvation.

The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction

For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.

He that lives in sin, and looks for happiness hereafter, is like him that soweth cockle and thinks to fill his barn with wheat or barley.

It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.

Fear, lest, by forgetting what you are by nature, you also forget the need that you have of continual pardon, support, and supplies from the Spirit of grace, and so grow proud of your own abilities, or of what you have received from God.

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.

Nae man can tether time nor tide.

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

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

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

His love is what makes us live, love, sing, and praise forever.

There hath not one tear dropped from thy tender eye against thy lusts, the love of this world, or for more communion with Jesus Christ, but as it is now in the bottle of God.

I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.

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

A comely sight indeed it is to see, a world of blossoms on an apple tree.

Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth.

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