Top 180 John Bunyan Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

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

— John Bunyan

104. “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

105. “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

106. “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

107. “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

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

— John Bunyan

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

— John Bunyan

110. “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

111. “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

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

— John Bunyan

113. “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

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

— John Bunyan

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

— John Bunyan

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

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117. “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

118. “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

119. “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.”

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120. “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

121. “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

122. “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

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

— John Bunyan

124. “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

125. “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

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

— John Bunyan

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

— John Bunyan

128. “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

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

— John Bunyan

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

— John Bunyan

131. “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

132. “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

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

— John Bunyan

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

— John Bunyan

136. “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

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

— John Bunyan

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

— John Bunyan

139. “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

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

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141. “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

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

— John Bunyan

143. “Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E’en drouned himsel amang the nappy.”

— John Bunyan

144. “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

145. “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

146. “It is easier going out of the way when we are in, than going in when we are out.”

— John Bunyan

147. “The name of the Slough was Despond.”

— John Bunyan

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

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149. “And as he went, he sang, saying – Well, Faithful, thou hast faithfully profest Unto thy Lord; with whom thou shalt be blest, When faithless ones, with all their vain delights, Are crying out under their hellish plights: Sing, Faithful, sing, and let thy name survive; For though they kill’d thee, thou art yet alive!”

— John Bunyan

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

— John Bunyan