John Bunyan

Are you a doer or a talker? – John Bunyan

At the day of Doom men shall be judged according to their fruits. It will not be said then, did you believe? But, were you doers or talkers only?

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The best way to learn truth – John Bunyan

The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.

– John Bunyan –

Find God each morning – John Bunyan

He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find him the rest of the day.

– John Bunyan –

Heart and Words in Prayer – John Bunyan

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

– John Bunyan –

Praise and Criticism – John Bunyan

If my life is fruitless, it doesn’t matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn’t matter who criticizes me.

– John Bunyan –

Church is a hospital – John Bunyan

Christ’s church is a hospital of sick, wounded, and afflicted people.

– John Bunyan –

The Greatness of His Sufferings – John Bunyan

For my part, I stand amazed at those that would not have the world believe, that the death of Jesus Christ was, in itself, so terrible as it was. …I say, if Christ was put into the very capacity of one that must suffer what in justice ought to be inflicted for sin; then, how we can so diminish the greatness of his sufferings, as some do, without undervaluing of the greatness of his love, I know not; and how they will answer it, I know not.

– John Bunyan –
from All Loves Excelling, 1692