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

John Bunyan

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

John Bunyan

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

John Bunyan

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

John Bunyan

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

John Bunyan

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

John Bunyan

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

John Bunyan

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!

John Bunyan

I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up

John Bunyan

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 t...

John Bunyan

Author Bio

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