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“Wake up, see your own wretchedness, and fly to the Lord Jesus. He is the righteousness of God, for He Himself is God. Only by believing in His righteousness will you be delivered from condemnation.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“I’d advise you, then, to quickly get rid of your burden; for until then you’ll never be settled in your mind or enjoy the benefits of the blessings that God has given you.”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim

“You came in by yourselves, without His direction, and will go out by yourselves, without His mercy."
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― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“affliction is better than sin, and if God sends the one to cleanse us from the other, let us thank him, and be also content to pay the messenger.”
― John Bunyan, Advice To Sufferers (Annotated)

“...I am for going on, and venturing my eternal state with Christ, whether I have comfort here or no; if God doth not come in, thought I, I will leap off the ladder even blindfold into eternity, sink or swim, come heaven, come hell; Lord Jesus, if thou wilt catch me, do; if not, I will venture for thy name.”
― John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

“His basic message is meant to put steel in their backbone and to encourage them to run the race and seek the prize of Heaven. He comes to remind them that they have an enemy who seeks to destroy them.
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― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“As I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Denn; And I laid me down in that place to sleep: And as I slept I dreamed a Dream.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“Why, man! Christ is so hid in God from the natural apprehensions of the flesh, that he cannot by any man be savingly known, unless God the Father reveals him to them.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“The man that seeks the everlasting prize; It shows you whence he comes, wither he goes. What he leaves undone; also what he does. It also shows you how he runs and runs. Till he unto the gate of glory comes.”
― John Bunyan

“Another part or piece,' said Diabolus, 'of mine excellent armour, is a dumb and prayerless spirit, a spirit that scorns to cry for mercy, let the danger be ever so great; therefore be you, my Mansoul, sure that you make use of this.”
― John Bunyan, The Holy War

“admittance into the true church of Christ is based on regeneration, not merely on an affirmation of a creed or doctrine. The”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“Prudence asked further, “Do you not still carry some of the baggage from the place you escaped?” “Yes, but against my will. I still have within me some of the carnal thoughts that all my countrymen, as well as myself, were delighted with. Now all those things cause me to grieve. If I could master my own heart, I would choose never to think of those things again, but when I try only to think about those things that are best, those things that are the worst creep back into my mind and behavior.”83”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“We are apt to overshoot, in the days that are calm, and to think ourselves far higher, and more strong than we find we be when the trying day is upon us . . . We could not live without such turnings of the hand of God upon us. We should be overgrown with flesh, if we had not our seasonable winter” (Seasonable Counsel, 694). In the days of pain, the Lord showed me how much flesh I still retain –– how prone I am to fear, sadness, worry, agitation, frustration, and doubt. Yet through it all, how wondrously beautiful are the reign of God over sin through the cross and all the gospel fruits that flow from it toward me: forgiveness, reconciliation, life, righteousness, help, true hope, peace, resolute joy, persevering strength, ears to hear the word and a heart to believe it, transformed desires that compel me and my family to follow God.”
― John Bunyan

“Then the Interpreter took Christian by the hand and led him into a very large parlor that was full of dust because it was never swept. After He had reviewed it a little while, the Interpreter called for a man to come and sweep. Now when he began to sweep, the dust began to fly about so much and was so thick that Christian almost choked. Then said the Interpreter to a damsel who stood nearby, "Bring water, and sprinkle the room." When she had done as requested, it was swept and cleansed very pleasantly.
Then Christian asked, "What does this mean?"
The Interpreter answered, "This parlor is the heart of a man that has never been sanctified by the sweet grace of the gospel; the dust is his original sin and inward corruptions that have defiled the whole man. The first man that began to sweep is the Law; the damsel that brought water and sprinkled it is the gospel. You saw that as soon as the first man began to sweep, the dust filled the room
so thickly that it could not be cleansed, and you almost choked on it. This is to show you that the Law, instead of cleansing the heart from sin, actually revives, increases, and adds strength to it. Even though the Law uncovers and forbids sin, it is powerless to conquer or subdue”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“The preeminent job of the church is to equip Christian for life's challenges. This requires the emphasis on being fitted with tested armor. He is tutored in the Word of God. He is encouraged to rely on the Lord alone through faith in His promises and providence. He is drilled in the doctrines of salvation and is encouraged to allow these truths to work themselves deep into his soul. He is encouraged to live righteously by having within him a righteous mind soaked in Scripture and demonstrated in right living. He is taught how to pray. He is encouraged to share his faith with those who do not have peace with God.
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― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“For instance, I have seen many cry out against sin in the pulpit who yet abide it well enough in their own heart, home, and manner of life.
"Potiphar's”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“I would rather go through this valley to find the honor that true wise men seek than choose those things that this man and his worldly friends think most worthy of our affections."
"Did”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls. ”
― John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

“They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“Destruction. This pathway also represents a way that is not the straight way, also a way with a wide variety of many other religious and social philosophies.
Danger”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“For knowledge, great knowledge, may be obtained in the mysteries of the gospel, without any work of grace in the soul. You see, even if a man has all knowledge, he may still be nothing, and so, consequently, not be a child of God.”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress

“Oh, the remembrance of my great sins, of my great temptations, and of my great fears of perishing forever! They bring afresh into my mind the remembrance of my great help, my great support from Heaven, and the great grace that God extended to such a wretch as I.”
― John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

“We should not take lightly the horrible thoughts this place of death and destruction are meant to unveil. We are warned about the misery of death and Hell and should reflect upon its timeless torments and endless darkness in which men grope hopelessly for some relief that they are fully persuaded no longer exists.
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― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“he had eyes lifted up to Heaven, the best of books in his hand, the law of truth written upon his lips, the world behind his back. He stood as if pleading with men, and a crown of gold hung over his head."
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― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“The man with whom you are so impressed will beguile with that tongue of his twenty who do not know him."2
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― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“CHR. True or right fear is discovered by three things:-- 1. By its rise; it is caused by saving convictions for sin. 2. It driveth the soul to lay fast hold of Christ for salvation. 3. It begetteth and continueth in the soul a great reverence of God, his Word, and ways, keeping it tender, and making it afraid to turn from them, to the right hand or to the left, to anything that may dishonour God, break its peace, grieve the Spirit, or cause the enemy to speak reproachfully.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“The great enemy of grace is the strict accounting of our sin and corruption that when added up totals such a staggering debt that no person without faith in the sure promises of God would ever dare calculate that anything good awaits him and would further be convinced that all that does lie ahead is a complete foreclosure of his soul and all its contents.
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― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“The new convert is tested to see if the words he professes are justified with corresponding fruit in his life. Christian's”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“The bothersome noise of religious talk grows irksome when laid upon the living score of discordant behavior. Talkative's”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”
― John Bunyan