Kenneth Morgan > Kenneth's Quotes

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

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

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

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

“This hill though high I covent ascend;
The difficulty will not me offend;
For I perceive the way of life lies here.
Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear. ”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

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

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

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

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

“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

“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

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

“O my dear wife, said he, and you the children of my bowels, I, your dear friend, am in myself undone by reason of a burden that lieth hard upon me; moreover, I am for certain informed that this our city will be burned with fire from heaven; in which fearful overthrow, both myself, with thee my wife, and you my sweet babes, shall miserably come to ruin, except (the which yet I see not) some way of escape can be found, whereby we may be delivered.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“They also thought to drive away his distemper by harsh and surly carriages to him; sometimes they would deride, sometimes they would chide, and sometimes they would quite neglect him.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“I looked then, and saw a man named Evangelist coming to him and asked, Wherefore dost thou cry? [Job 33:23]
{14} He answered, Sir, I perceive by the book in my hand, that I am condemned to die, and after that to come to judgement [Heb. 9:27]; and I find that I am not willing to do the first [Job 16:21], nor able to do the second. [Ezek. 22:14]”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“The man therefore read it, and looking upon Evangelist very carefully, said, Whither must I fly? Then said Evangelist, pointing with his finger over a very wide field, Do you see yonder wicket-gate? [Matt. 7:13,14] The man said, No. Then said the other, Do you see yonder shining light? [Ps. 119:105; 2 Pet. 1:19] He said, I think I do. Then said Evangelist, Keep that light in your eye, and go up directly thereto: so shalt thou see the gate; at which, when thou knockest, it shall be told thee what thou shalt do.
{18} So I saw in my dream that the man began to run.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“The neighbours also came out to see him run [Jer. 20:10]; and, as he ran, some mocked, others threatened, and some cried after him to return; and, among those that did so, there were two that resolved to fetch him back by force. The name of the one was Obstinate and the name of the other Pliable.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“I seek an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away [1 Pet. 1:4], and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there [Heb. 11:16], to be bestowed, at the time appointed, on them that diligently seek it. Read it so, if you will, in my book.
OBST. Tush! said Obstinate, away with your book; will you go back with us or no?
CHR. No, not I, said the other, because I have laid my hand to the plough. [Luke 9:62]
{22} OBST. Come, then, neighbour Pliable, let us turn again, and go home without him; there is a company of these crazy-headed coxcombs, that, when they take a fancy by the end, are wiser in their own eyes than seven men that can render a reason. [Prov. 26:16]
PLI. Then said Pliable, Don't revile; if what the good Christian says is true, the things he looks after are better than ours: my heart inclines to go with my neighbour.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“Now I saw in my dream, that just as they had ended this talk they drew near to a very miry slough, that was in the midst of the plain; and they, being heedless, did both fall suddenly into the bog. The name of the slough was Despond. Here, therefore, they wallowed for a time, being grievously bedaubed with the dirt; and Christian, because of the burden that was on his back, began to sink in the mire.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“Titus 3.5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;”
― God the Father, KJV Bible with Thompson Chain-Reference: KJV Bible, Thompson Chain-References and King James Dictionary

“Rom 12.14 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.”
― God the Father, KJV Bible with Thompson Chain-Reference: KJV Bible, Thompson Chain-References and King James Dictionary

“Rom 12.15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.”
― God the Father, KJV Bible with Thompson Chain-Reference: KJV Bible, Thompson Chain-References and King James Dictionary

“Rom 12.17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.”
― God the Father, KJV Bible with Thompson Chain-Reference: KJV Bible, Thompson Chain-References and King James Dictionary

“Gal 5.22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Thompson chain references: Fruit, Spiritual, Fruitfulness-Unfruitfulness, Holy Spirit, Longsuffering, Love, Love-Hatred, Meekness, Meekness-Retaliation, Peace, Rest-Unrest, Righteousness, Spiritual King James Dictionary: Faith, Fruit, Gentleness, Goodness, Joy, Longsuffering, Love, Peace, Spirit Gal 5.23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”
― God the Father, KJV Bible with Thompson Chain-Reference: KJV Bible, Thompson Chain-References and King James Dictionary

“Rom 12.1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.”
― God the Father, KJV Bible with Thompson Chain-Reference: KJV Bible, Thompson Chain-References and King James Dictionary

“Rom 12.2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
― God the Father, KJV Bible with Thompson Chain-Reference: KJV Bible, Thompson Chain-References and King James Dictionary