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
heart artist air
Faith receiveth the promise, embraceth it, and comforteth the soul unspeakably with it. Faith is so great an artist in arguing and reasoning with the soul, that it will bring over the hardest heart that it hath to deal with. It will bring to my remembrance at once, both my vileness against God, and his goodness towards me; it will show me, that though I deserve not to breathe in the air, yet that God will have me an heir of glory.
christian art blessing
Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.
christian art prayer
Take heed of driving so hard after this world, as to hinder thyself and family from those duties towards God, which thou art by grace obliged to; as private prayer, reading the scriptures, and Christian conference. It is a base thing for men so to spend themselves and families after this world, as that they disengage their heart to God's worship.
horse art lying
He that comes to Christ cannot, it is true, always get on as fast as he would. Poor coming soul, thou art like the man that would ride full gallop whose horse will hardly trot. Now the desire of his mind is not to be judged of by the slow pace of the dull jade he rides on, but by the hitching and kicking and spurring as he sits on his back. Thy flesh is like this dull jade, it will not gallop after Christ, it will be backward though thy soul and heaven lie at stake.
man soon word
So soon as the man overtook me, he was but a word and a blow.
honey lion meet nest next overcome shall time within
Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that roared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them
honey lion meet nest next overcome shall time within
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.
cannot praise pray prayed until
You can do more than pray, after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed
passed
So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.
behold
So I awoke, and behold it was a dream.
dismal round strength themselves
Who so beset him round / With dismal stories, / Do but themselves confound; / His strength the more is.
courage shall skill succeed sword
My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
heart prayer words
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart.
rather
When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.