1628-1688, British Author
Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.
John Bunyan – [Punishment]
He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
John Bunyan – [Giving]
I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.
John Bunyan – [Jesus Christ]
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 – [Contentment]
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
John Bunyan – [Prayer]
My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
John Bunyan – [Inheritance]
Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.
John Bunyan – [Trials]
One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
John Bunyan – [Sin]
Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.
John Bunyan – [Dreams]
Temptations, when we first meet them, are like a lion that roared at Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.
John Bunyan – [Temptation]
The more he cast away the more he had.
John Bunyan – [Generosity]
There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.
John Bunyan – [Doubt]