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
ashamed desire difference grace looked mine sin sorry wonder
Hope. I am sorry that I was so foolish, and am made to wonder that I am not now as Lot's wife, for wherein was the difference betwixt her sin and mine? She only looked back and I had a desire to go see. Let grace be adored, and let me be ashamed that ever such a thing should be in mine heart.
pride grace saint
It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be received with the same grace, whether it be given by the poorest of saints or the most educated person.
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.
christian soul grace
It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.
grace no-fear hell
Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.
men grace salvation
There can be but one will the master in our salvation, but that shall never be the will of man, but of God; therefore man must be saved by grace.
mercy-of-god soul grace
...Great sins do draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ, when showed to the soul, appears most high and mighty...
jesus grace helping
Grace can pardon our ungodliness and justify us with Christ's righteousness; it can put the Spirit of Jesus Christ within us; it can help us when we are down; it can heal us when we are wounded; it can multiply pardons, as we through frailty multiply transgressions.
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.