Quotes About Bunyan

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

Godly fear," wrote John Bunyan, flows from a sense of the love and kindness of God to the soul. Where there is no sense of hope of the kindness and mercy of God by Jesus Christ, there can be none of this fear, but rather wrath and despair, which produces a fear that is Ã¢â'¬Â¦ devilish; Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but godly fear flows from a sense of hope of mercy from God by Jesus Christ.2

Sometimes a light glimmered out of the physician's eyes, burning blue and ominous, like the reflection of a furnace, or, let us say, like one of those gleams of ghastly fire that darted from Bunyan's awful doorway in the hill-side, and quivered on the pilgrim's face.

He didn't turn to look at his home or family behind him (Escape; for thy soul, do not look behind thee, neither stop thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. – Gen. 19:17b), but fled towards the middle of the plain.

he who doesn't come in by the door, but climbs up some other way, that person is a thief and a robber'?