Quotes from John Bunyan

To run and work the law commands, but gives us neither feet nor hands. But better news the gospel brings, it bids us fly and gives us wings.

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

Fullness to such a burden is That go on pilgrimage; Here little, and hereafter bliss, Is best from age to age.

Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.

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.

Not that the heart can be good without knowledge, for without knowledge the heart is empty. But there are two kinds of knowledge: the first is alone in its bare speculation of things, and the second is accompanied by the grace of faith and love, which causes a man to do the will of God from the heart.

To go back is nothing but death; to go forward is fear of death, and life everlasting beyond it. I will yet go forward.

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.

Is there anything more worthy of our tongues and mouths than to speak of the things of God and Heaven?

I live because I am a Warrior and because I wish one day to be in the company of [She] for whom I have fought so hard.

God's grace is the most incredible and insurmountable truth ever to be revealed to the human heart, which is why God has given us His Holy Spirit to superintend the process of more fully revealing the majesty of the work done on our behalf by our Savior. He teaches us to first cling to, and then enables us to adore with the faith He so graciously supplies, the mercy of God. This mercy has its cause and effect in the work of Jesus on the cross.

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