Top 180 John Bunyan Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction.”

— John Bunyan

52. “A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.”

— John Bunyan

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

— John Bunyan

54. “Run when I can, walk when I cannot run, and creep when I cannot walk.”

— John Bunyan

55. “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

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

— John Bunyan

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

— John Bunyan

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

— John Bunyan

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

— John Bunyan

60. “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

61. “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

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

— John Bunyan

63. “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

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

— John Bunyan

65. “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

66. “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

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

— John Bunyan

68. “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

69. “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

70. “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

71. “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

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

— John Bunyan

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

— John Bunyan

74. “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

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

— John Bunyan

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

— John Bunyan

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

— John Bunyan

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

— John Bunyan

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

— John Bunyan

80. “The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.”

— John Bunyan

81. “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

82. “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

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

— John Bunyan

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

— John Bunyan

85. “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

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

— John Bunyan

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

— John Bunyan

88. “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

89. “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

90. “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

91. “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

92. “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!”

— John Bunyan

93. “Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.”

— John Bunyan

94. “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.”

— John Bunyan

95. “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

96. “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

97. “Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the heart or soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Holy Spirit, for such things as God hath promised, or according to the Word, for the good of the church, with submission, in faith, to the will of God.”

— John Bunyan

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

— John Bunyan

99. “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

100. “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