Quotes by John Bunyan

About John Bunyan:

John Bunyan was an English writer and baptist preacher best remembered as the author of the religious allegory The Pilgrim's Progress. In addition to The Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons.
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Now may this little Book a blessing be To those that love this little Book, and me: And may its Buyer have no cause to say, His money is but lost, or thrown away.

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O my Mansoul, I have lived, I have died, I live, and I will die no more for thee. I live that thou mayest not die. Because I live thou shalt live also; I reconciled thee to my Father by the blood of My cross, and being reconciled thou shalt live thro...

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Another part or piece,' said Diabolus, 'of mine excellent armour, is a dumb and prayerless spirit, a spirit that scorns to cry for mercy, let the danger be ever so great; therefore be you, my Mansoul, sure that you make use of this.

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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.

John Bunyan

Then said he, ’I am going to my Father’s; and though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my c...

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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?

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

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Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion.

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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...

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The law, instead of cleansing the heart from sin, doth revive it, put strength into, and increase it in the soul, even as it doth discover and forbid it, for it doth not give power to subdue.

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Whoso beset him round With dismal stories Do but themselves confound; His strength the more is.

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But was you not afraid, good sir, when you see him come with his club?" "It is my duty," said he, "to distrust mine own ability, that I may have reliance on him that is stronger than all".

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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.

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So he had them into the slaughter house, where was a butcher killing a sheep. And behold, the sheep was quiet and took her death patiently. Then said the Interpreter, "You must learn of this sheep to suffer, and put up wrongs without murmurings and c...

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They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?

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

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

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

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Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameJohn Bunyan
  • DescriptionEnglish Christian writer and preacher
  • BornNovember 28, 1628
  • DiedAugust 31, 1688
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionTheologian; Writer
  • WorksThe Pilgrim's Progress