Quotes of John Bunyan - somelinesforyou

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

- John Bunyan

“ In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ”

- John Bunyan

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

- John Bunyan

“ 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 the end is woe. ”

- John Bunyan

“ 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 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 that the poor man that loveth Christ is richer than the greatest man in the world that hates him: Shame, depart, thou art an enemy to my salvation. ”

- John Bunyan

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

- John Bunyan

“ 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. ”

- John Bunyan

“ 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. ”

- John Bunyan

“ And last, the crown of a' my grief. ”

- John Bunyan

“ Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security. ”

- John Bunyan

“ Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, the slight of His power, and the contempt of His love. ”

- John Bunyan

“ 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. ”

- John Bunyan

“ Her prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses O! ”

- John Bunyan

“ God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised. ”

- John Bunyan

“ Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security. ”

- John Bunyan

“ The name of the Slough was Despond. ”

- John Bunyan

“ It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is "lighter than vanity. ”

- John Bunyan

“ It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is "lighter than vanity. ”

- John Bunyan

“ But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower, — its bloom is shed. ”

- John Bunyan

“ It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is "lighter than vanity. ”

- John Bunyan

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

- John Bunyan

“ Pray often; for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan. ”

- John Bunyan

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

- John Bunyan

“ The name of the Slough was Despond. ”

- John Bunyan

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

- John Bunyan

“ Oh the remembrance of my great sins, of my great temptations, and of my great fear of perishing forever! They bring afresh into my mind the remembrance of my great help, my great supports from Heaven, and the great grace that God extended to such a wretch as I. ”

- John Bunyan

“ Temptations, when we first meet them, are like a lion that roared at Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them. ”

- John Bunyan

“ Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that roared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them. ”

- John Bunyan

“ Yestreen, when to the trembling string The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha', To thee my fancy took its wing; I sat, but neither heard nor saw. ”

- John Bunyan
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