Top 180 John Bunyan Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Run when I can, walk when I cannot run, and creep when I cannot walk.”

— John Bunyan

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

— John Bunyan

53. “It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.”

— John Bunyan

54. “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.”

— John Bunyan

55. “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

56. “I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.”

— John Bunyan

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

— John Bunyan

58. “Sincerity carries the soul in all simplicity to open its heart to God.”

— John Bunyan

59. “To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.”

— John Bunyan

60. “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.”

— John Bunyan

61. “Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.”

— John Bunyan

62. “Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.”

— John Bunyan

63. “There is no way to kill a man’s righteousness but by his own consent.”

— John Bunyan

64. “The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.”

— John Bunyan

65. “The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.”

— John Bunyan

66. “I saw, moreover, that it was not my good frame of heart that made my righteousness better, nor my bad frame that made my righteousness worse; for my righteousness was Jesus Christ himself, the same yesterday and today and forever.”

— John Bunyan

67. “Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion.”

— John Bunyan

68. “Humility is the light of the understanding.”

— John Bunyan

69. “The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.”

— John Bunyan

70. “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.”

— John Bunyan

71. “Doth Jesus Christ stand up to plead for us with God, to plead with him for us against the devil? Let this teach us to stand up to plead for him before men, to plead for him against the enemies of his person and gospel.”

— John Bunyan

72. “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

73. “If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself, they won’t do whatever they want, they’ll do whatever He wants.”

— John Bunyan

74. “He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.”

— John Bunyan

75. “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.”

— John Bunyan

76. “Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.”

— John Bunyan

77. “Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.”

— John Bunyan

78. “Beware of resting in the word of the kingdom, without the spirit and power of the kingdom of that gospel, for the gospel coming in word only saves nobody, for the kingdom of God or the gospel, where it comes to salvation, is not in word but in power.”

— John Bunyan

79. “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.”

— John Bunyan

80. “Temptations, 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

81. “Though the world disregard the society of God’s children now, yet there is a time coming in which they would be glad to have the least company with them.”

— John Bunyan

82. “I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.”

— John Bunyan

83. “Riches and power, what is there more in the world? For money answereth all things-that is, all but soul concerns. It can neither be a price for souls while here, nor can that, with all the forces of strength, recover one out of hell fire.”

— John Bunyan

84. “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.”

— John Bunyan

85. “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.”

— John Bunyan

86. “If you release me today, I’ll preach tomorrow.”

— John Bunyan

87. “A comely sight indeed it is to see, a world of blossoms on an apple tree.”

— John Bunyan

88. “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.”

— John Bunyan

89. “As your faith is, such your hope will be. Hope is never ill when faith is well, nor strong if faith be weak.”

— John Bunyan

90. “The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.”

— John Bunyan

91. “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

92. “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.”

— John Bunyan

93. “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?”

— John Bunyan

94. “The best prayers have often more groans than words.”

— John Bunyan

95. “There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.”

— John Bunyan

96. “It is possible to learn all about the mysteries of the Bible and never be affected by it in one’s soul. Great knowledge is not enough.”

— John Bunyan

97. “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.”

— John Bunyan

98. “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.”

— John Bunyan

99. “It is my duty, said he, to distrust mine own ability, that I may have reliance on him that is stronger than all.”

— John Bunyan

100. “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.”

— John Bunyan