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“It is always hard to see the purpose in wilderness wanderings until after they are over.
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― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“What God says is best, indeed is best, though all men in the world are against it. Seeing, then, that God prefers his religion; seeing God prefers a tender conscience; seeing they that make themselves fools for the kingdom of heaven are wisest; and that the poor man that loveth Christ is richer than the greatest man in the world that hates him: Shame, depart, thou art an enemy to my salvation.”
― John Bunyan

“It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.”
― John Bunyan

“The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction”
― John Bunyan

“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, The Pilgrim's Progress

“The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.”
― John Bunyan, The Holy War

“Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.”
― John Bunyan

“Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.”
― John Bunyan

“Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there is no saving... Where there is grafting there will always be a cutting, the graft must be let in with a wound; to stick it onto the outside or to tie it on with a string would be of no use. Heart must be set to heart and back to back or there will be no sap from root to branch. And this, I say, must be done by a wound, by a cut.”
― John Bunyan

“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, The Pilgrims Progress

“I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.”
― John Bunyan

“Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner.”
― John Bunyan

“This hill, though high, I covet to ascend;
The difficulty will not me offend.
For I perceive the way to life lies here.
Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear.
Better, though difficult, the right way to go,
Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“When you pray, rather let your heart be without words then your words without heart. ”
― John Bunyan

“a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress From This World To That Which Is To Come

“He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.”
― John Bunyan

“Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.”
― John Bunyan

“What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrims Progress

“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ”
― John Bunyan