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 cutting men
Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there is no saving... Where there is grafting there will always be a cutting, the graft must be let in with a wound; to stick it onto the outside or to tie it on with a string would be of no use. Heart must be set to heart and back to back or there will be no sap from root to branch. And this, I say, must be done by a wound, by a cut.
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.
walked wilderness
As I walked through the wilderness of this world.
name palace
A very stately palace before him, the name of which was Beautiful.
name progress
The name of the slough was Despond. -'Pilgrim's Progress