Pilgrims Progress Quotes:

The name of the Slough was Despond.

- John Bunyan

source: The Pilgrim's Progress pt. 1 (1678)

topic: Names, Pilgrims Progress, Slough

I seek a place that can never be destroyed, one that is pure, and that fadeth not away, and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there, to be given, at the time appointed, to them that seek it with all their heart. Read it so, if you will, in my book.

- John Bunyan

source: John Bunyan (2013). “The Pilgrim's Progress”, p.19, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Book, Heart, Heaven, Pilgrims Progress

This hill though high I covent ascend; The difficulty will not me offend; For I perceive the way of life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear.

- John Bunyan

topic: Lying, Heart, Way, Pilgrims Progress

Then said he, ’I am going to my Father’s; and though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me that I have fought His battles who now will be my rewarder.’.... So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

- John Bunyan

source: 'The Pilgrim's Progress' (1684) pt. 2 (Mr Valiant-for-Truth)

topic: Father, Skills, Giving, Pilgrims Progress

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

- John Bunyan

source: John Bunyan, William Mason (1814). “The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to Come;: Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream: Wherein is Discovered the Manner of His Setting Out, His Dangerous Journey, and Safe Arrival at the Desired Country:”, p.97

topic: Men, World, Obedience, Pilgrims Progress

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

- John Bunyan

topic: Peace, Feet, Mind, Pilgrims Progress, Quietness

To go back is nothing but death; but to go forward is fear of death and life everlasting beyond.

- John Bunyan

source: John Bunyan (1851). “The pilgrim's progress. With a life of Bunyan by J.M. Wilson, and notes abridged from T. Scott”

topic: Life And Death, Risk, Fear Of Death, Pilgrims Progress

The more he cast away, the more he had.

- John Bunyan

topic: Educational, Cast Away, Casts, Philanthropic, Pilgrims Progress

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

- John Bunyan

topic: Ships, Sin, Leaks, Pilgrims Progress, Sinning

I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?

- John Bunyan

topic: Traitor, Given, Allegiance, Pilgrims Progress

a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.

- John Bunyan

topic: Men, Mad, Charity, Cast Away, Pilgrims Progress

For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.

- John Bunyan

source: John Bunyan (2017). “Pilgrim's Progress (Illustrated Edition)”, p.78, Whitaker House

topic: Care, Speak, Profit, Pilgrims Progress

Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.

- John Bunyan

source: John Bunyan (2013). “The Pilgrim’s Progress Simplified: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.124, BookCaps Study Guides

topic: Dark, Clouds, Water, Dark Clouds, Pilgrims Progress

What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.

- John Bunyan

source: John Bunyan, Thomas Scott (1825). “The Pilgrim's Progress: From this World to that which is to Come. Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream. In Two Parts”, p.161

topic: Confidence, Lying, Greatness, Pilgrims Progress

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

- John Bunyan

topic: Heaven, Way, Saws, Pilgrims Progress, Gates Of Heaven

All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass - "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners."

- Archibald Alexander

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 580, 1895.

topic: Jesus, Orthodox Church, World, Orthodox Christian, Pilgrims Progress

Saying and doing are two things.

- Matthew Henry

topic: Two, Saying And Doing, Pilgrims Progress

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

topic: Fall, Humble, Pride, Pilgrims Progress, No Failure

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

- John Bunyan

topic: Men, World, He Man, Pilgrims Progress

The law, instead of cleansing the heart from sin, doth revive it, put strength into, and increase it in the soul, even as it doth discover and forbid it, for it doth not give power to subdue.

- John Bunyan

source: John Bunyan (2013). “The Pilgrim’s Progress Simplified: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.171, BookCaps Study Guides

topic: Heart, Law, Giving, Pilgrims Progress

It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity.

- John Bunyan

source: "The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come (Part I)". Book by John Bunyan, 1678.

topic: Vanity, Names, Towns, Pilgrims Progress, Vanity Fair

Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion.

- John Bunyan

source: John Bunyan (2005). “The Pilgrim's Progress”, p.261, New Leaf Publishing Group

topic: Strong, Heart, Men, Pilgrims Progress, Great Hearts

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

- Carl Jung

topic: Hands, Hiking, Progress, Pilgrim, Pilgrims Progress

It is imperative that the past of the pilgrims' progress be intentionally carried forward into the present as we work into our future. Without it we cannot know who we are, why we are here, or where we can go. Without a common past to live out of we become aimless and wandering individuals instead of a pilgrim people.

- H. Richard Niebuhr

topic: Past, People, Progress, Pilgrim, Pilgrims Progress

A saint abroad, and a devil at home.

- John Bunyan

source: John BUNYAN (1836). “The Pilgrim ́s Progress”, p.89

topic: Home, Hypocrisy, Devil, Pilgrims Progress

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.

- Lionel Blue

topic: Religious, Book, Class, Pilgrims Progress