John Bunyan Quotes
John Bunyan Quotes
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
4270 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.
1859 The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.
4866 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.
2784 Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
4668 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.
3600 Whoso beset him round
With dismal stories
Do but themselves confound;
His strength the more is.
2608 Just as Christian came up to the Cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, fell from off his back, and began to tumble down the hill, and so it continued to do till it came to the mouth of the sepulchre. There it fell in, and I saw it no more!
4309 I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up
1331 Follow your heart
2801 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.
4290 Another part or piece,' said Diabolus, 'of mine excellent armour, is a dumb and prayerless spirit, a spirit that scorns to cry for mercy, let the danger be ever so great; therefore be you, my Mansoul, sure that you make use of this.
4611 But was you not afraid, good sir, when you see him come with his club?"
"It is my duty," said he, "to distrust mine own ability, that I may have reliance on him that is stronger than all".
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