Top 180 John Bunyan Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

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

— John Bunyan

104. “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

105. “Wake up, see your own wretchedness, and fly to the Lord Jesus. He is the righteousness of God, for He Himself is God. Only by believing in His righteousness will you be delivered from condemnation.”

— John Bunyan

106. “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?”

— John Bunyan

107. “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

108. “Grace can pardon our ungodliness and justify us with Christ’s righteousness; it can put the Spirit of Jesus Christ within us; it can help us when we are down; it can heal us when we are wounded; it can multiply pardons, as we through frailty multiply transgressions.”

— John Bunyan

109. “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.”

— John Bunyan

110. “Let the Kingdom be always before you, and believe with certainty and consistency the things that are yet unseen. Let nothing that is on this side of eternal life get inside you.”

— John Bunyan

111. “We know not the matter of the things for which we should pray, neither the object to whom we pray, nor the medium by or through whom we pray; none of these things know we, but by the help and assistance of the Spirit.”

— John Bunyan

112. “Prayer is an ordinance of God, that must continue with a soul so long as it is on this side glory.”

— John Bunyan

113. “To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.”

— John Bunyan

114. “At the day of Doom men shall be judged according to their fruits. It will not be said then, did you believe? But, were you doers or talkers only?”

— John Bunyan

115. “Nae man can tether time nor tide.”

— John Bunyan

116. “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

117. “It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.”

— John Bunyan

118. “I could not be satisfied unless some fruits did appear in my work.”

— John Bunyan

119. “A saint abroad, and a devil at home.”

— John Bunyan

120. “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?”

— John Bunyan

121. “If that a pearl may in a toad’s head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.”

— John Bunyan

122. “The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.”

— John Bunyan

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

— John Bunyan

124. “But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower.”

— John Bunyan

125. “It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where ’t is kept is lighter than vanity.”

— John Bunyan

126. “Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.”

— John Bunyan

127. “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.”

— John Bunyan

128. “Some who set out for this crown, even after they have gone quite a long ways, allow others who come along to snatch their victory from them. So hold fast to what you have, and let no man take away your crown.′ You are not yet out of reach of the gunshot of the Devil.”

— John Bunyan

129. “There can be but one will the master in our salvation, but that shall never be the will of man, but of God; therefore man must be saved by grace.”

— John Bunyan

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

— John Bunyan

131. “Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.”

— John Bunyan

132. “Some said, “John, print it”; others said “Not so.” Some said, “It might do good”; others said, “No.””

— John Bunyan

133. “There is in Jesus Christ more merit and righteousness than the whole world has need of.”

— John Bunyan

134. “The heart, when broken, is like sweet gums and spices when beaten; for as such cast their fragrant scent into the nostrils of men, so the heart, when broken, casts its sweet smell into the nostrils of God.”

— John Bunyan

135. “I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up.”

— John Bunyan

136. “Remember also the word, the word, I say, upon which the Lord hath caused you to hope: if you have sinned against light, if you are tempted to blaspheme, if you are drowned in despair, if you think God fights against you, or if heaven is hid from your eyes; remember it was thus with your father; but out of them all the Lord delivered me.”

— John Bunyan

137. “If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.”

— John Bunyan

138. “He ran till he came to a small hill, at the top of which stood a cross and at the bottom of which was a tomb. I saw in my dream that when Christian walked up the hill to the cross, his burden came loose from his shoulders and fell off his back, tumbling down the hill until it came to the mouth of the tomb, where it fell in to be seen no more.”

— John Bunyan

139. “If you are not a praying person, you are not a Christian.”

— John Bunyan

140. “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.”

— John Bunyan

141. “To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.”

— John Bunyan

142. “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.”

— John Bunyan

143. “Men, even the elect, have too many infirmities to come to Christ without help from heaven; inviting will not do.”

— John Bunyan

144. “Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth.”

— John Bunyan

145. “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.”

— John Bunyan

146. “Let the rage and malice of men be never so great, they can do no more, nor go any further, than God permits them; but when they have done their worst, We know all things shall work together for good to them that love God.”

— John Bunyan

147. “Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.”

— John Bunyan

148. “Though the hill is high, I still desire to walk up it. I don’t care how difficult it is, because I understand that it leads to the way of life.”

— John Bunyan

149. “There’ll be no more crying, or sorrow; for the owner of the place will wipe all tears from our eyes.”

— John Bunyan

150. “On the Day of Judgment, life and death are not determined by the world but by God’s wisdom and law.”

— John Bunyan