Quotes from John Bunyan

What God says is best, indeed is best, though all men in the world are against it. Seeing, then, that God prefers his religion; seeing God prefers a tender conscience; seeing they that make themselves fools for the kingdom of heaven are wisest; and that the poor man that loveth Christ is richer than the greatest man in the world that hates him: Shame, depart, thou art an enemy to my salvation.

The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction.

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.

He that lives in sin, and looks for happiness hereafter, is like him that soweth cockle and thinks to fill his barn with wheat or barley.

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

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.

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.

Nae man can tether time nor tide.

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

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

In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.

His love is what makes us live, love, sing, and praise forever.