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“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”
-- John Bunyan
#Motivational #Success #Perseverance
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“Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.”
-- John Bunyan
#Jesus #Prayer #Men
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“If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.”
-- John Bunyan
#Matter #Life Is #Praise
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“Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.”
-- John Bunyan
#Prayer #Sacrifice #Soul
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“Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.”
-- John Bunyan
#Bible #Christian #Men
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“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
-- John Bunyan
#Prayer #Heart #Worship
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“He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.”
-- John Bunyan
#Running #Morning
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“Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.”
-- John Bunyan
#Christian #Flower #Fall
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“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.”
-- John Bunyan
#Jesus #Grace #Spirit
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“Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.”
-- John Bunyan
#Prayer #Soul #Pouring
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“No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.”
-- John Bunyan
#Christian #Men #Temptation
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“You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.”
-- John Bunyan
#Prayer #Sacrifice #Soul
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“What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.”
-- John Bunyan
#Men #World #Obedience
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“And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth!”
-- John Bunyan
#Heaven #World #Earth
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“I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.”
-- John Bunyan
#Eye #Moss #Prison
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“He that is down needs fear no fall. He that is low, no pride; He that is humble, ever shall have God to be his Guide.”
-- John Bunyan
#Fall #Humble #Pride
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“In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.”
-- John Bunyan
#Disappointment #Affliction #God Love
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“Now while they were thus drawing towards the gate, behold, a company of the heavenly host came to meet them; to whom it was said by the other two Shining Ones, These are the men that have loved our Lord when they were in the world, and that have left all for his holy name; and he hath sent us to fetch them, and we have brought them thus far on their desired journey, that they may go in and look their Redeemer in the face with joy. Then the heavenly host gave a great shout, saying, 'Blessed are they that are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb.'”
-- John Bunyan
#Blessed #Journey #Men
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“I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.”
-- John Bunyan
#Jail #Butchery #Ends
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“You have chosen the roughest road, but it leads straight to the hilltops.”
-- John Bunyan
#Chosen
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“Sincerity carries the soul in all simplicity to open its heart to God.”
-- John Bunyan
#Heart #Simplicity #Soul
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“He that is down needs fear no fall.”
-- John Bunyan
#Fear #Failure #Fall
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“Fullness to such a burden is That go on pilgrimage; Here little, and hereafter bliss, Is best from age to age.”
-- John Bunyan
#Age #Goes On #Littles
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“Though the world disregard the society of God's children now, yet there is a time coming in which they would be glad to have the least company with them.”
-- John Bunyan
#Children #Would Be #World
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“Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.”
-- John Bunyan
#Sin #Christ #Righteousness
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“Though it be said that faith cometh by hearing, yet it is the Spirit that worketh faith in the heart through hearing, or else they are not profited by hearing.”
-- John Bunyan
#Heart #Hearing #Spirit
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“Such is the effect of the grace of God in the heart of a pilgrim; while on one hand he sees the propensity of his evil nature to every sin which has been committed by others, and is humbled; he also confesses, that, by no power of his own, is he preserved, but ever gives the glory to the God of all grace, by whose power alone he is kept from falling.”
-- John Bunyan
#Fall #Heart #Hands
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“Here is the life of prayer, when in or with the Spirit, a man being made sensible of sin, and how to come to the Lord for mercy; he comes, I say, in the strength of the Spirit, and crieth Father. That one word spoken in faith is better than a thousand prayers, as men call them, written and read, in a formal, cold, lukewarm way.”
-- John Bunyan
#Prayer #Father #Men
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“It is sad to see how the most of men neglect their precious souls, turning their backs upon the glorious gospel, and little minding a crucified Jesus, when, in the meanwhile, their bodies are well provided for, their estates much regarded, and the things of this present life are highly prized, as if the darling was of less value than a clod of earth; an immortal soul, than a perishing body; a precious Saviour, than unsatisfying creatures.”
-- John Bunyan
#Jesus #Men #Soul
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“Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.”
-- John Bunyan
#Sweet #Sleep #Insomnia
