Quotes from John Bunyan

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.

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.

Saint abroad, and a devil at home.

He that is down need fear no fall.

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

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

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.

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

At the day of Doom men shall be judged according to their fruits. It will not be said then, did you believe? But, were you doers or talkers only?

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

There can be but one will the master in our salvation, but that shall never be the will of man, but of God; therefore man must be saved by grace.

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

Without the Spirit man is so infirm that he cannot, with all other means whatsoever, be enabled to think one right saving thought of God, of Christ, or of his blessed things.

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

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

Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.

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.

I could not be satisfied unless some fruits did appear in my work.

Fullness to such a burden is That go on pilgrimage; Here little, and hereafter bliss, Is best from age to age.

Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.

Who would true valour see, Let him come hither; One here will constant be, Come wind, come weather There's no discouragement Shall make him once relent His first avowed intent To be a pilgrim.

Not that the heart can be good without knowledge, for without knowledge the heart is empty. But there are two kinds of knowledge: the first is alone in its bare speculation of things, and the second is accompanied by the grace of faith and love, which causes a man to do the will of God from the heart. The