Quotes by John Bunyan
John Bunyan (1628–1688) — Schriftsteller/Prediger · Puritaner · England
John Bunyan war ein englischer puritanischer Prediger und Schriftsteller des 17. Jahrhunderts, der wegen seines unlizenzierten Predigens über zwölf Jahre im Gefängnis von Bedford inhaftiert war. Bekanntheit erlangte er vor allem durch sein allegorisches Werk „Die Pilgerreise“ sowie seine theologische Betonung von Gnade, Buße und Standhaftigkeit in geistlichen Anfechtungen. Bibellesern veranschaulichen seine Texte bis heute die Herausforderungen der christlichen Nachfolge, Heilsgewissheit und das Ringen mit Glaubenszweifeln in bildhafter Sprache.
Era: Reformation & Baroque
Recurring topics: Growth & Character, Grace & Redemption, Prayer & Silence, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Discipleship, Temptation & Struggle, The Bible & the Word of God, Eternity & Hope Beyond Death
Quotes by John Bunyan
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
John Bunyan
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
Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
John Bunyan
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 by prayer.
John Bunyan
You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
John Bunyan
The best prayers consist more of sighs than of words.
John Bunyan
Indeed this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world – namely, that a righteousness that resides with a Person in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth.
John Bunyan
If we have no quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
John Bunyan
God…will not lightly or easily lose His people. He has provided well for us: blood to wash us in; a Priest to pray for us, that we may be made to persevere; and, in case we foully fall, an Advocate to plead our cause.
John Bunyan
Weep not for me, but for yourselves. I go to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will through the mediation of His blessed son receive me though a sinner; there we shall meet to sing the new song and remain everlasting happy, world without end.
John Bunyan
Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!
John Bunyan
He that is down need fear no fall.
John Bunyan
If you are children of the King, then live like children of the King!
John Bunyan
Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think it; otherwise man’s heart would never have been compared to fallow ground and God’s Word to a plough.
John Bunyan
Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled with God.
John Bunyan
He has his back to the world, his face toward heaven and a Book in his hand.
John Bunyan
He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.
John Bunyan
Love, not baptism, opens to us the world as Christ sees it.
John Bunyan
I cannot stop preaching, because God has called me to preach.
John Bunyan
What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.
John Bunyan
Every day should begin with Bible reading and prayer, for either sin will keep you from the Bible, or the Bible will keep you from sin.
John Bunyan
What greater madness can there be than for man to labor for the meat which perisheth, and neglect the food of eternal life?
John Bunyan
But I observed that, although I was such a great sinner before conversion, God never burdened me heavily with the guilt of sins committed while I was in ignorance. He only showed me that I was lost if I did not have Christ because I had been a sinner. I saw that I needed a perfect righteousness to present me without fault before God, and this righteousness was nowhere to be found but in the person of Jesus Christ.
John Bunyan
Prayer is a shield to the soul.
John Bunyan
Wherefore, though the Christian, as a Christian, is the only man at liberty, as called thereunto of God; yet his liberty is limited to things that are good: he is not licensed thereby to indulge the flesh.
John Bunyan
At the day of Doom men shall be judged according to their fruits. It will not be said then, Did you believe? But, Were you doers, or talkers only?
John Bunyan
Therefore, I bind these lies and slanderous accusations to my person as an ornament; it belongs to my Christian profession to be vilified, slandered, reproached and reviled, and since all this is nothing but that, as God and my conscience testify, I rejoice in being reproached for Christ’s sake.
John Bunyan
Nothing can hurt thee but sin; nothing can grieve thee but sin; nothing can make thee vile before thine enemies but sin: take heed of sin, my soul.
John Bunyan
Distrust small sins.
John Bunyan
If you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the Man Christ without, and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within…you are not able to divide the word aright; but contrariwise, you corrupt the word of God.
John Bunyan
Thou Son of the Blessed, what grace was manifest in Thy condescension! Grace brought Thee down from heaven; Grace stripped Thee of Thy glory; Grace made Thee poor and despicable; Grace made Thee bear such burdens of sin, such burdens of sorrow, such burdens of God’s curse as are unspeakable.
John Bunyan
It gave me no pleasure to see people drink in my opinions if they seemed ignorant of Jesus Christ and the value of being saved by Him. Sound conviction for sin, especially the sin of unbelief, and a heart set on fire to be saved by Christ, with a strong yearning for a truly sanctified soul-this was what delighted me; those were the souls I considered blessed.
John Bunyan
Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the heart or soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Holy Spirit, for such things as God has promised, or according to the Word of God, for the good of the church, with submission in faith to the will of God.
John Bunyan
In one of the streets of Bedford I came to where there were three or four poor women sitting at a door in the sun and talking about the things of God. Willing to listen, I drew near to hear what they said, for I was a brisk talker myself in matters of religion. But I have to say that I heard, but I didn’t understand, for they were far above, out of my reach. They spoke about a new birth, the work of God in their hearts… They said how God had visited their souls with His love in the Lord Jesus, and with what words and promises they had been refreshed, comforted and supported against the temptations of the devil… And it seemed to me they spoke as if joy did make them speak. They spoke with such pleasantness of biblical language, and with such obvious grace in all they said, that they were to me as if they had found a new world.
John Bunyan
If He hides the sin, or lesseneth it, He is faulty; if He leaves it still upon us, we die. He must then take our iniquity to Himself, make it His own, and so deliver us; for thus having taken the sin upon Himself, as lawfully He may, and lovingly He doth, it followeth that we live if He lives; and who can desire more?
John Bunyan
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Sources: digitalpuritan.net, wikipedia.org, apuritansmind.com, britannica.com
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