John Bunyan

"He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day."

"My name is now Christian, but my name used to be Graceless."

"Christ is my righteousness and He is the same yesterday, today, and forever."

"Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell there is no grace where there is no fear of God."

"I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction."

"In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

"He that is humble, ever shall have God to be his Guide."

"I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eyelids rather than disobey God."

"The best prayers have often more groans than words."

"In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies."

"To despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven."

"Hope is never ill when faith is well."

"I preach deliverance to others while I hear my own chains clang."

"It was not my good frame of heart that made my righteousness better, nor my bad frame that made my righteousness worse, righteousness was Jesus Christ himself."

"I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times."

"Though it be said that faith cometh by hearing, yet it is the Spirit that worketh faith in the heart through hearing."

"If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us."

"An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop."

"There can be but one will the master in our salvation, but that shall never be the will of man...man must be saved by grace."

"No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures."

"One of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely...a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth!"

"I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up."

"To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted."

"No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness."

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

"The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction."

"Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Chris."

"If thou hast sinned, lie not down without repentance; for the want of repentance...makes the heart yet harder."

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

"He that lives in sin and looks for happiness is like him that soweth cockle and thinks to fill his barn with wheat or barley."

"Man indeed is the most noble of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin the most ignoble."

"The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin."

"The best prayer had enough sin to damn the whole world."

"Nothing can hurt you except sin, nothing can defeat you except sin."

"One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner."

"The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world."

"It is always hard to see the purpose in wilderness wanderings until after they are over."

"A work of grace in the soul makes itself known either to the one who has it or to onlookers."

"To go back is nothing but death; but to go forward is fear of death."

"For knowledge may be obtained without any work of grace in the soul, even if a man has all knowledge, he may still be nothing."

"Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan".

"You came in by yourselves, without His direction, and will go out by yourselves, without His mercy."

"God's grace is the most incredible and insurmountable truth ever to be revealed to the human heart."

"Is there anything more worthy of our tongues and mouths than to speak of the things of God and Heaven?"

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

"Christian relies consciously on God's Word for protection."

"Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven."

"I have sworn my allegiance to Him; how can I go back and not be hanged as a traitor?"

"I would rather go through this valley to find the honor that true wise men seek than choose those things that worldly friends think most worthy of our affections."

"He who doesn't come in by the door is a thief and a robber."

"The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death."

"You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."

"He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have ten times more."

"Humility is the light of understanding."

"Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace."

"Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men."

"Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them."

"When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart."

"If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself they'll do whatever He wants."

"Be of good cheer, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole."

"Temptation provokes me to look upward to God."

"The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart."

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

"Sincerity carries the soul in all simplicity."

"Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical."

"Christ is the desire of nations, delight of the Father."

"In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God."

"The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out."

"A man shall not be so let and hindred in his Contemplation, as in other places he is apt to be."

"Christ is so hid in God from the natural apprehensions of the flesh, that he cannot by any man be savingly known."

"I also know that a man can quickly invalidate whatever advice he presents to others for their own good."

"They now see with Heaven's eyes the schemes of the world in a new way."

"Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours."

"The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns."

"The bitter must come before the sweet make the sweet the sweeter."

"The bothersome noise of religious talk grows irksome when laid upon the living score of discordant behavior."

"There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent."