John Bunyan

Awakens Christians To Faith And Prayer – 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 – John Bunyan

 

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

– John Bunyan –

June 1, 2015

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

– John Bunyan –

January 19, 2015

He that is down needs fear no fall; He that is low, no pride.

– John Bunyan –

May 16, 2014

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

November 23, 2013

I will stay in this prison until moss grows on my eyelids before disobeying God.

– John Bunyan –

November 6, 2013

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 –

October 7, 2013

A man there was, and they called him mad; the more he gave, the more he had.

– John Bunyan –