Quotes by

John Bunyan

Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty. – John Bunyan

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot. – John Bunyan

I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also. – John Bunyan

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. – John Bunyan

One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner. – John Bunyan

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. – John Bunyan

The more he cast away the more he had. – John Bunyan

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

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

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. – John Bunyan