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.
JOHN BUNYANFor 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.
JOHN BUNYANNothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.
JOHN BUNYANNo child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
JOHN BUNYANMan 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.
JOHN BUNYANAt 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?
JOHN BUNYANIn prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
JOHN BUNYANI will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.
JOHN BUNYANOur heart often 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.
JOHN BUNYANKnock, and it shall be opened unto you.
JOHN BUNYANThis hill though high I covent ascend; The difficulty will not me offend; For I perceive the way of life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let’s neither faint nor fear.
JOHN BUNYANIt is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.
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 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 BUNYANThe road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction.
JOHN BUNYANThe heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.
JOHN BUNYANHe that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.
JOHN BUNYAN