Top 100 John Bunyan Quotes
#1. When Christians unto carnal men give ear, Out of their way they go, and pay for 't dear; For Master Worldly Wiseman can but shew A saint the way to bondage and to woe.
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#2. Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.
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#3. There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent.
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#4. 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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#5. The more he cast away, the more he had.
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#6. I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.
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#7. Breathes there a man, whose judgment clear Can others teach their course to steer, Yet run himself life's mad career Wild as the wave?
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#8. Therefore, I bind these lies and slanderous accusations to my person as an ornament; it belongs to my Christian profession to be vilified, slandered, reproached and reviled, and since all this is nothing but that, as God and my conscience testify, I rejoice in being reproached for Christ's sake.
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#9. To go back is nothing but death; but to go forward is fear of death and life everlasting beyond.
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#10. The life blood streaming thro' my heart, Or my more dear immortal part, Is not more fondly dear.
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#11. Who would true Valour see,
Let him come hither
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#12. Though it be said that faith cometh by hearing, yet it is the Spirit that worketh faith in the heart through hearing, or else they are not profited by hearing.
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#13. If you release me today, I'll preach tomorrow.
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#14. There is enough sin in my best prayer to send the whole world to Hell.
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#15. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
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#17. but yet I was bound in the wings of the temptation, and the wind would carry me away. I thought also of Saul, and of the evil spirit that did possess him: and did greatly fear that my condition was the same with that of his. 1 Sam. x.
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#18. Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!
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#19. Without the Spirit man is so infirm that he cannot, with all other means whatsoever, be enabled to think one right saving thought of God, of Christ, or of his blessed things.
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#20. I saw a man clothed with rags ... a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.
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#21. The reason why the Christians in this day are at such a loss as to some things is that they are contented with what comes from man's mouth, without searching and kneeling before God to know of Him the truth of things.
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#22. To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.
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#24. This 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.
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#25. I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up
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#26. God, as I may say, is forced to break men's hearts, before he can make them willing to cry to him, or be willing that he should have any concerns with them; the rest shut their eyes, stop their ears, withdraw their hearts, or say unto God, Be gone.
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#27. Now, I saw, upon a time, when he was walking in the fields, that he was, as he was wont, reading in his book, and greatly distressed in his mind; and, as he read, he burst out, as he had done before, crying, What shall I do to be saved?
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#28. Bun. Sir, said I, Wickliffe saith, that he which leaveth off preaching and hearing of the Word of God for fear of excommunication of men, he is already excommunicated of God, and shall in the day of judgment be counted a traitor to Christ.
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#29. What like the apprehension of free forgiveness (and that apprehension must come in through a sight of the greatness of sin, and of inability to do any thing towards satisfaction), to engage the heart of a rebel to love his prince, and to submit to his laws?
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#30. As your faith is, such your hope will be. Hope is never ill when faith is well, nor strong if faith be weak.
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#31. I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.
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#32. 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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#33. I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.
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#35. An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop.
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#36. Most men will not ignore the present world that they can see in order to make the world they cannot see the object of their desires. Therefore, there is an
immediate friendship between this world and a man's fleshly desires and a corresponding distance between carnal man and eternal things.
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#37. The greatness of God, of the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, is that, if rightly considered, which will support the spirits of those of his people that are frighted with the greatness of their adversaries.
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#38. To which I answered, That the intent of my coming thither, and to other places, was to instruct, and counsel people to forsake their sins, and close in with Christ, lest they did miserably perish; and that I could do both these without confusion (to wit), follow my calling, and preach the Word also.
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#39. Fear, lest, by forgetting what you are by nature, you also forget the need that you have of continual pardon, support, and supplies from the Spirit of grace, and so grow proud of your own abilities, or of what you have received from God.
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#41. Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy.
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#42. One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner.
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#43. I could not be satisfied unless some fruits did appear in my work.
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#44. Nothing 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.
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#45. Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
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#46. There is more virtue in one sin to destroy, than in all thy righteousness to save thee alive.
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#47. Men, even the elect, have too many infirmities to come to Christ without help from heaven; inviting will not do.
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#48. I seek a place that can never be destroyed, one that is pure, and that fadeth not away, and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there, to be given, at the time appointed, to them that seek it with all their heart. Read it so, if you will, in my book.
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#51. The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.
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#52. CHR. I seek an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away [1 Pet. 1:4], and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there [Heb. 11:16], to be bestowed, at the time appointed, on them that diligently seek it.
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#53. Farewell, I wish our souls may meet with comfort at the journey's end.-
The Heavenly Footman: A Puritan's View of How to Get to Heaven.
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#54. Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.
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#55. No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.
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#56. Indeed, to know is something that pleases talkers and boasters, but to do is that which pleases God. Not
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#57. It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.
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#58. Wherefore, though the Christian, as a Christian, is the only man at liberty, as called thereunto of God; yet his liberty is limited to things that are good: he is not licensed thereby to indulge the flesh.
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#59. He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
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#60. Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.
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#61. There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.
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#62. To go back is nothing but death; to go forward is fear of death, and life everlasting beyond it. I will yet go forward.
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#63. It is easier going out of the way when we are in, than going in when we are out.
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#64. Humility is the light of understanding.
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#65. There hath not one tear dropped from thy tender eye against thy lusts, the love of this world, or for more communion with Jesus Christ, but as it is now in the bottle of God.
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#66. Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.
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#67. It is common for those that have called themselves His servants, after awhile to give Him the slip, and return again to me.
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#68. As I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Denn; And I laid me down in that place to sleep: And as I slept I dreamed a Dream.
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#69. Great sins do draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ, when showed to the soul, appears most high and mighty ...
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#70. The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.
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#71. It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be received with the same grace, whether it be given by the poorest of saints or the most educated person.
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#72. There is an endless kingdom to be enjoyed, and everlasting life to be given us, that we may live in that kingdom forever.
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#73. If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us ...
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#74. Some said, "John, print it"; others said "Not so." Some said, "It might do good"; others said, "No."
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#75. 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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#76. Run when I can, walk when I cannot run, and creep when I cannot walk.
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#77. A tender heart is a wakeful, watchful heart. It watches against sin in the soul, sin in the family, sin in the calling, sin in spiritual duties and performances.
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#78. So Christian went on his way, saying: Here have I seen things rare and profitable; Things pleasant, dreadful; things to make me stable In what I have begun to take in hand: Then let me think on them, and understand Wherefore they showed me where; and let me be Thankful, O good Interpreter, to thee.
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#79. If you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the Man Christ without, and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, you are not able to divide the word aright; but contrariwise, you corrupt the word of God.
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#80. He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.
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#81. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end
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#82. Now, according to the strength or weakness of his faith in his Savior, so is his joy and peace, so is his love for holiness, so are his desires to know Him more and to serve Him more single-mindedly in this present world.
But
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#83. The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.
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#84. It is always hard to see the purpose in wilderness wanderings until after they are over.
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#85. If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.
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#86. As for your burden, be content to bear this load until you come to the place of Deliverance, for there it will fall from your back of its own accord.
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#87. Prayer 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.
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#88. In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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#89. The man that seeks the everlasting prize; It shows you whence he comes, wither he goes. What he leaves undone; also what he does. It also shows you how he runs and runs. Till he unto the gate of glory comes.
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#90. Fullness to such a burden is
That go on pilgrimage;
Here little, and hereafter bliss,
Is best from age to age.
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#91. {369} HOPE. I do believe, as you say, that fear tends much to men's good, and to make them right, at their beginning to go on pilgrimage.
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#92. A comely sight indeed it is to see, a world of blossoms on an apple tree.
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#93. I found my condition in his experience so largely and profoundly handled, as if his book had been written out of my heart. This made me marvel: for thus thought I, This man could not know any thing of the state of Christians now, but must needs write and speak the experience of former days.
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#94. It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity.
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#95. 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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#96. Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.
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#97. Of all fears, they are best that are made by the blood of Christ; and of all joy, that is the sweetest that is mixed with mourning over Christ: Oh! it is a goodly thing to be on our knees, with Christ in our arms, before God: I hope I know something of these things.
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#98. I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.
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#99. What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.
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#100. 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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