John Bunyan quotes - page 2

Now, this... Mountain signified the Church of the living God; the Sun that shone thereon, the comfortable shining of his merciful Face on them that were therein; the Wall, I thought, was the Word, that did make separation between the Christians and the World; and the Gap which was in this Wall, I thought was Jesus Christ, who is the way to God the Father. But forasmuch as the Passage was wonderful narrow... it showed me that none could enter into Life, but those that were in downright earnest, and unless also they left this wicked World behind them; for here was only room for Body and Soul, but not for Body and Soul, and Sin. (John Bunyan)
He who would valiant be, Let him come hither; One here will constant be, Come wind, come weather There's no discouragement Shall make him once relent His first avow'd intent To be a pilgrim. Whoso beset him round With dismal stories, Do but themselves confound; His strength the more is. No lion can him fright, He'll with a giant fight, But he will have a right To be a pilgrim. Hobgoblin nor foul fiend Can daunt his spirit; He knows he at the end Shall life inherit. Then, fancies, fly away, He'll not fear what men say; He'll labour night and day To be a pilgrim. View quote
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See that your cause be good, else Christ will not undertake it. View quote
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By these things my Mind was now so turned that it lay like a Horse-leech at the Vein, still crying out, Give give, yea, it was so fixed on Eternity, and on the things about the Kingdom of Heaven (that is, so far as I knew, though as yet... I knew but little); that neither Pleasures, nor Profits, nor Persuasions, nor Threats, could loosen it, or make it let go his Hold. ...it is in very deed a certain Truth, it would then have been as difficult for me to have taken my mind from Heaven to Earth, as I have found it often since to get it again from Earth to Heaven. View quote
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I fought till my sword did cleave to my hand; and then they were joined together as if a sword grew out of my arm; and when the blood ran through my fingers, then I fought with most courage. View quote
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When a man's cause is good, it will sufficiently plead for itself, yea, and for its master too. View quote
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The palace Beautiful. View quote
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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? View quote
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When you pray, rather let your heart be without words then your words without heart. View quote
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And so I penned It down, until at last it came to be, For length and breadth, the bigness which you see. View quote
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They came to the Delectable Mountains. (John Bunyan)
...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! View quote
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My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. View quote
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Now as they were going along and talking, they espied a Boy feeding his Father's Sheep. The Boy was in very mean Cloaths, but of a very fresh and well-favoured Countenance, and as he sate by himself he sung. Hark, said Mr Greatheart, to what the Shepherd's boy saith. So they hearkened, and he said- : He that is down needs fear no fall; He that is low, no pride; He that is humble, ever shall Have God to be his guide. I am content with what I have, Little be it or much: And, Lord, contentment still I crave, Because thou savest such. Fulness to such a burthen is, That go on pilgrimage; HERE little, and HEREAFTER bliss, Is best from age to age. :* "The Shepherd Boy's Song", in Part II, Ch. VI : The Valley of Humiliation; comparable to: "I am not now in fortune's power: He that is down can fall no lower", Samuel Butler, Hudibras (1663), Part i, Canto iii, Line 877. View quote
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Now, I was, as they said, become godly; now I was become a right honest man. View quote
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Then Mr. Honest called for his friends, and said unto them, I die, but shall make no will. As for my honesty, it shall go with me; let him that comes after be told of this. View quote
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The last words of Mr. Honest were, Grace reigns! So he left the world. View quote
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There stood a man with his sword drawn, and his face all over with blood. View quote
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When he understood it, he called for his friends, and told them of it. View quote
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I came where there were three or four poor Women sitting at a door in the Sun, and talking about the things of God. View quote
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I was tossed betwixt the Devil and my own Ignorance, and so perplexed... that I could not tell what to do. (John Bunyan)
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 will now be my rewarder. View quote
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Now the passage being very strait and narrow... I was well nigh quite beat out, by striving to get in. View quote
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I saw... a narrow gap, like a little doorway in the Wall. View quote
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So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side. View quote
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