Quotes from John Bunyan

He that is down, needs fear no fall,He that is low, no pride.

A foul Fiend coming over the field to meet him; his name is Apollyon.

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

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

A very stately palace before him, the name of which was Beautiful.

What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.

It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 'tis kept is lighter than vanity.

I will talk of things heavenly, or things earthly; things moral, or things evangelical; things sacred, or things profane; things past, or things to come; things foreign, or things at home; things more essential, or things circumstantial.

The name of the one was Obstinate and the name of the other Pliable.

Faithful: What! why he (Shame) objected against religion itself; he said it was a pitiful, low, sneaking business for a man to mind religion; he said that a tender conscious was an unmanly thing; and that for a man to watch over his words and ways, so as to tie himself up from that hectoring liberty that the brave spirits of the times accustom themselves unto, would make him the ridicule of the times."

Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.