John Bunyan
John Bunyan
John Bunyanwas an English writer and Baptist preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress. In addition to The Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth28 November 1628
age goes-on littles
Fullness to such a burden is That go on pilgrimage; Here little, and hereafter bliss, Is best from age to age.
humility light understanding
Humility is the light of the understanding.
I was never out of my Bible.
motivational humility light
Humility is the light of understanding.
cities stupidity intelligence
I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.
fruit satisfied
I could not be satisfied unless some fruits did appear in my work.
lying heart way
This hill though high I covent ascend; The difficulty will not me offend; For I perceive the way of life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear.
sweet heart scent
The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.
grace small-gifts great-gifts
Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.
support grace needs
Fear, lest, by forgetting what you are by nature, you also forget the need that you have of continual pardon, support, and supplies from the Spirit of grace, and so grow proud of your own abilities, or of what you have received from God.
men noble world
Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.
sweet heart men
The heart, when broken, is like sweet gums and spices when beaten; for as such cast their fragrant scent into the nostrils of men, so the heart, when broken, casts its sweet smell into the nostrils of God.
truth smell heaven
Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.
country winter tree
It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.