01c. 1658 ADSo 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.John Bunyan / quote ↗
02c. 1658 ADYou have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.John Bunyan / quote ↗
03c. 1658 ADThere is in Jesus Christ more merit and righteousness than the whole world has need of.John Bunyan / quote ↗
04c. 1658 ADNothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.John Bunyan / quote ↗
05c. 1658 ADThe law, instead of cleansing the heart from sin, doth revive it, put strength into, and increase it in the soul, even as it doth discover and forbid it, for it doth not give power to subdue.John Bunyan / quote ↗
06c. 1658 ADThen I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.John Bunyan / quote ↗
07c. 1658 ADI have determined, the Almighty God being my help and my shield, yet to suffer, if frail life might continue so long, even until the moss shall grow on my eyebrows, rather than to violate my faith and my principles.John Bunyan / quote ↗
08c. 1658 ADBut was you not afraid, good sir, when you see him come with his club?""It is my duty," said he, "to distrust mine own ability, that I may have reliance on him that is stronger than all".John Bunyan / quote ↗
09c. 1658 ADThey are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?John Bunyan / quote ↗
10c. 1658 ADConversion 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 / quote ↗
11c. 1658 ADThen Apollyon straddled quite over the whole breadth of the way, and said "I am void of fear in this matter. Prepare thyself to die; for I swear by my infernal den, that thou go no farther: here will I spill thy soul.John Bunyan / quote ↗
12c. 1658 ADIf we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.John Bunyan / quote ↗
13c. 1658 ADI found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me upJohn Bunyan / quote ↗
16c. 1658 ADWhen you pray rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.John Bunyan / quote ↗
18c. 1658 ADA sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.John Bunyan / quote ↗
19c. 1658 ADPrayer is a shield to the soul a sacrifice to God and a scourge for Satan.John Bunyan / quote ↗
20c. 1658 ADHe who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.John Bunyan / quote ↗
21c. 1658 ADMy sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.John Bunyan / quote ↗
