I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times: and I have thought again, that one reason why we are no better, is because God purges us no more. I know these things are against the grain of the flesh, but they are not against the graces of the Spirit.
– John Bunyan –
Hope is never ill when faith is well.
– John Bunyan –
Such things as are most bitter to the flesh, tend to awaken Christians to faith and prayer, to a sight of the emptiness of this world, and the fadingness of the best it yield? Doth not God by these things (ofttimes) call our sins to remembrance, and provoke us to amendment of life? How then can we be offended at things by which we reap so much good?…. Therefore if mine enemy hunger, let me feed him; if he thirst, let me give him drink. Now in order to do this, (1) We must see good in that, in which other men can see none. (2) We must pass by those injuries that other men would revenge. (3) We must show we have grace, and that we are made to bear what other men are not acquainted with. (4) Many of our graces are kept alive, by those very things that are the death of other men’s souls…. The devil, (they say) is good when he is pleased; but Christ and His saints, when displeased.
– John Bunyan –
Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
– John Bunyan –
He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.
– John Bunyan –
He that is down needs fear no fall; He that is low, no pride.
– John Bunyan –
The pilgrims now, to gratify the flesh,
Will seek its ease, but oh! How they afresh
Do thereby plunge themselves new griefs into!
Who seek to please the flesh, themselves undo!
– John Bunyan –
from The Pilgrim’s Progress
I will stay in this prison until moss grows on my eyelids before disobeying God.
– John Bunyan –
To run and work the law commands, but gives us neither feet nor hands. But better news the gospel brings, it bids us fly and gives us wings.
– John Bunyan –