Humility is the light of understanding.
JOHN BUNYANHumility is the light of understanding.
JOHN BUNYANPray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
JOHN BUNYANI 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?
JOHN BUNYANTo 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.
JOHN BUNYANNo man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.
JOHN BUNYANAfflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.
JOHN BUNYANI will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.
JOHN BUNYANThe truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
JOHN BUNYANOld truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.
JOHN BUNYANThe best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.
JOHN BUNYANOur sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.
JOHN BUNYANPrayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.
JOHN BUNYANIf you are not a praying person, you are not a Christian.
JOHN BUNYANIf we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
JOHN BUNYANIf my life is fruitless, it doesn’t matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn’t matter who criticizes me.
JOHN BUNYANTemptations, 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.
JOHN BUNYAN