Quotes from John Bunyan
The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.
- John Bunyan
What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.
- John Bunyan
No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.
- John Bunyan
Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.
- John Bunyan
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
A man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.
- John Bunyan
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
If we have not quiet in our own minds, outward comforts will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
- John Bunyan
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
Men, even the elect, have too many infirmities to come to Christ without help from heaven; inviting will not do.
- John Bunyan
There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent.
- John Bunyan
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