John Bunyan

I am for going on, and venturing my eternal state with Christ, whether I have comfort here or no; if God doth not come in, thought I, I will leap off the ladder even blindfold into eternity, sink or swim, come heaven, co…

I never saw those heights and depths in grace, and love, and mercy, as I saw after this temptation; great sins to draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ, when…

This is Christ, who continually, with the oil of his grace, maintains the work already begun in the heart: by the means of which, notwithstanding what the devil can do, the souls of his people prove gracious still.

Suppose a man is coming to Christ to be saved, and hath nothing but sin, and an ill-spent life, to bring with him; why, let him come, and welcome to Jesus Christ, and he will in no wise cast him out.

Nor must thou think always to live by sense: thou must live upon my word. Thou must believe, O my Mansoul, when I am from thee, that yet I love thee, and bear thee upon mine heart for ever.

Nothing can hurt thee but sin; nothing can grieve me but sin; nothing can make thee base before thy foes but sin: take heed of sin, my Mansoul.

That a spirit rightly broken, a heart truly contrite, is to God an excellent thing.

Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the heart or soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Holy Spirit, for such things as God hath promised, or according to the Word, for…

Have you forgot the close, the milk-house, the stable, the barn, and the like, where God did visit your souls?

That my sin, when compared to the blood of Christ, was no more to it, than this little clod or stone before me, is to this vast and wide field that here I see.

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

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

But he considered again that he had no armour for his back; and therefore thought that to turn the back to him might give him the greater advantage with ease to pierce him with his darts. Therefore he resolved to venture…

For here was only room for body and soul, but not for body and soul and sin.

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.

To go back is nothing but death; to go forward is fear of death, and life-everlasting beyond it. I will yet go forward.

He hath given me rest by his sorrow, and life by his death.

Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gate of heaven, as well as from the City of Destruction.

What God says is best, indeed is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

But poor wretch as I was! I was all this while ignorant of Jesus Christ; and going about to establish my own righteousness; and had perished therein, had not God in mercy showed me more of my state by nature.

I can remember my fears and doubts, and sad months, with comfort; they are as the head of Goliah in my hand.

You dwell in the City of Destruction, the place also where I was born: I see it to be so; and, dying there, sooner or later, you will sink lower than the grave, into a place that burns with fire and brimstone.

I am a poor burdened sinner. I come from the City of Destruction, but am going to Mount Zion, that I may be delivered from the wrath to come.

This miry slough is such a place as cannot be mended; it is the descent whither the scum and filth that attends conviction for sin doth continually run, and therefore it is called the Slough of Despond.

Why, Sir, this burden upon my back is more terrible to me than all these things which you have mentioned; nay, methinks I care not what I meet with in the way, if so be I can also meet with deliverance from my burden.

I have sent you here enclosed, a drop of that honey that I have taken out of the carcase of a lion.

God did not play in tempting of me; neither did I play, when I sank as into the bottomless pit, when the pangs of hell caught hold upon me.

It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.