Top 180 John Bunyan Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— John Bunyan

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2. “An idle man’s brain is the devil’s workshop.”

— John Bunyan

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

— John Bunyan

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4. “To 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 Bunyan

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5. “If 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 Bunyan

6. “He that is down needs fear no fall. He that is low, no pride; He that is humble, ever shall have God to be his Guide.”

— John Bunyan

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7. “You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.”

— John Bunyan

8. “Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.”

— John Bunyan

9. “Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled with God.”

— John Bunyan

10. “Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.”

— John Bunyan

11. “He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.”

— John Bunyan

12. “I am content with what I have, little be it, or much.”

— John Bunyan

13. “The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end.”

— John Bunyan

14. “What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.”

— John Bunyan

15. “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.”

— John Bunyan

16. “Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.”

— John Bunyan

17. “In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.”

— John Bunyan

18. “And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth!”

— John Bunyan

19. “The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver.”

— John Bunyan

20. “Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.”

— John Bunyan

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

— John Bunyan

22. “You have chosen the roughest road, but it leads straight to the hilltops.”

— John Bunyan

23. “In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies.”

— John Bunyan

24. “I was never out of my Bible.”

— John Bunyan

25. “His love is what makes us live, love, sing, and praise forever.”

— John Bunyan

26. “I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.”

— John Bunyan

27. “He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.”

— John Bunyan

28. “The more he cast away, the more he had.”

— John Bunyan

29. “I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.”

— John Bunyan

30. “There is enough sin in my best prayer to send the whole world to Hell.”

— John Bunyan

31. “If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes the heart yet harder and harder.”

— John Bunyan

32. “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.”

— John Bunyan

33. “Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.”

— John Bunyan

34. “Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.”

— John Bunyan

35. “I preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.”

— John Bunyan

36. “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.”

— John Bunyan

37. “The same yesterday, today, and forever.”

— John Bunyan

38. “To go back is nothing but death; but to go forward is fear of death and life everlasting beyond.”

— John Bunyan

39. “Hope is never ill when faith is well.”

— John Bunyan

40. “No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.”

— John Bunyan

41. “Be of good cheer, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole.”

— John Bunyan

42. “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.”

— John Bunyan

43. “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.”

— John Bunyan

44. “No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.”

— John Bunyan

45. “Prayer is a shield to the soul.”

— John Bunyan

46. “I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.”

— John Bunyan

47. “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.”

— John Bunyan

48. “He that is down needs fear no fall.”

— John Bunyan

49. “Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.”

— John Bunyan

50. “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.”

— John Bunyan