John Bunyan

“He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.”

“When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.”

“For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.”

“So he had them into the slaughter house, where was a butcher killing a sheep. And behold, the sheep was quiet and took her death patiently. Then said the Interpreter, "You must learn of this sheep to suffer, and put up wrongs without murmurings and complaints. Behold how quietly she takes her death! And without objecting she suffereth her skin to be pulled over her ears. Your King doth call you his sheep.”

“If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.”

“Then said he, ’I am going to my Father’s; and though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me that I have fought His battles who now will be my rewarder.’.... So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.”

“There is in Jesus Christ more merit and righteousness than the whole world has need of.”

“Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.”

“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.”

“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart.”

“Now may this little Book a blessing beTo those that love this little Book, and me:And may its Buyer have no cause to say,His money is but lost, or thrown away.”

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

“On the Day of Judgment , life and death are not determined by the world but by God's wisdom and law”

“There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.”

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

“Just as Christian came up to the Cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, fell from off his back, and began to tumble down the hill, and so it continued to do till it came to the mouth of the sepulchre. There it fell in, and I saw it no more!”

“Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion.”

“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?”

“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.”

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