John Bunyan — Mr. John Bunyan's Dying Sayings

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.

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.