Quotes from John Bunyan

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

Temptations, when we first meet them, are like a lion that roared at Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.

The more he cast away the more he had.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

This hill though high I covent ascend; The difficulty will not me offend; For I perceive the way of life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear.

This hill, though high, I covet to ascend; The difficulty will not me offend. For I perceive the way to life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear. Better, though difficult, the right way to go, Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.

a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.