John Bunyan Quotes

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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
A very stately palace before him, the name of which was Beautiful.

John Bunyan
SINNER: What black, what ugly, crawling thing art thou?
SPIDER: I am a spider

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Who would true valour see,
Let him come hither;
One here will constant be,
Come wind, come weather.
There's no discouragement
Shall make him once relent
His first avowed intent
To be a pilgrim.

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

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

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A man there was, tho' some did count him mad,
The more he cast away, the more he had.

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

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As I walked through the wilderness of this world.

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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!

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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.

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Some things are of that nature as to make
One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.

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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.

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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.

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Now I saw in my dream, that the highway, up which Christian was to go, was fenced on either side with a wall, and that wall was called salvation. Up this way, therefore, did burdened Christian run, but not without great difficulty, because of the load on his back. He ran thus till he came at a place somewhat ascending; and upon that place stood a cross, and a little below, in the bottom, a sepulchre. So I saw in my dream, that just as Christian came up with the cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, and fell from off his back, and began to tumble, and so continued to do till it came to the mouth of the sepulchre, where it fell in, and I saw it no more.

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I will talk of things heavenly, or things earthly; things moral, or things evangelical; things sacred, or things profane; things past, or things to come; things foreign, or things at home; things more essential, or things circumstantial.

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

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Now may this little Book a blessing be To those that love this little Book, and me: And may its Buyer have no cause to say, His money is but lost, or thrown away.

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Mercy…laboured much for the poor…an ornament to her profession.

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It beareth the name of Vanity-Fair, because the town where 'tis kept, is lighter than vanity.

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

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Captain Consumption, with all his men of death.

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

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If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.

John Bunyan
I saw a man clothed with rags... a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.

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