Jeff Berean > Jeff's Quotes

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

“It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.”
― John Bunyan

“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

“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

“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