Quotes from John Bunyan

Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.

It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.

One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner.

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

I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?

I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.

The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there is no saving... Where there is grafting there will always be a cutting, the graft must be let in with a wound; to stick it onto the outside or to tie it on with a string would be of no use. Heart must be set to heart and back to back or there will be no sap from root to branch. And this, I say, must be done by a wound, by a cut.

I seek a place that can never be destroyed, one that is pure, and that fadeth not away, and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there, to be given, at the time appointed, to them that seek it with all their heart. Read it so, if you will, in my book.

My name is now Christian, but my name used to be Graceless.

Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.