Quotes from John Bunyan

A work of grace in the soul makes itself known either to the one who has it or to onlookers.

Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion.

Indeed, to know is something that pleases talkers and boasters, but to do is that which pleases God.

When you talk of your journey and of what you have heard and seen, you inwardly desire your own glory in all you do and say.

Dost thou love picking meat? Or wouldst thou see A man in the clouds, and have him speak to thee?

I would rather go through this valley to find the honor that true wise men seek than choose those things that this man and his worldly friends think most worthy of our affections.

So he had them into the slaughter house, where was a butcher killing a sheep. And behold, the sheep was quiet and took her death patiently. Then said the Interpreter, You must learn of this sheep to suffer, and put up wrongs without murmurings and complaints. Behold how quietly she takes her death! And without objecting she suffereth her skin to be pulled over her ears. Your King doth call you his sheep.

His basic message is meant to put steel in their backbone and to encourage them to run the race and seek the prize of Heaven. He comes to remind them that they have an enemy who seeks to destroy them.

Admittance into the true church of Christ is based on regeneration, not merely on an affirmation of a creed or doctrine.

I am for going on, and venturing my eternal state with Christ, whether I have comfort here or no; if God doth not come in, thought I, I will leap off the ladder even blindfold into eternity, sink or swim, come heaven, come hell; Lord Jesus, if thou wilt catch me, do; if not, I will venture for thy name.

Affliction is better than sin, and if God sends the one to cleanse us from the other, let us thank him, and be also content to pay the messenger.

You came in by yourselves, without His direction, and will go out by yourselves, without His mercy.