John Bunyan
He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.Collection: Good
My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.Collection: Courage
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart.
When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.
There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.
Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.
You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.Collection: Motivational
The reason why the Christians in this day are at such a loss as to some things is that they are contented with what comes from man's mouth, without searching and kneeling before God to know of Him the truth of things.Collection: Christian
If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.Collection: Life
You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.Collection: Prayer
The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.Collection: Lying
Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.Collection: Bible
He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.Collection: Running
No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.Collection: Christian
Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.Collection: Jesus
If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself, they won't do whatever they want, they'll do whatever He wants.Collection: Punishment
In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.Collection: Christian
What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.Collection: Men
The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.Collection: Prayer
In prayer, it is better to have heart without words, than words without heart. Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin entice a man to cease from prayer. The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.Collection: Prayer
I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.Collection: Christian
The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor endCollection: Christian
Hope is never ill when faith is well.Collection: Ill
It is possible to learn all about the mysteries of the Bible and never be affected by it in one's soul. Great knowledge is not enough.Collection: Inspiration
Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.Collection: Should
I would say to my soul, O my soul, this is not the place of despair; this is not the time to despair in. As long as mine eyes can find a promise in the Bible, as long as there is a moment left me of breath or life in this world, so long will I wait or look for mercy, so long will I fight against unbelief and despair.Collection: Eye
Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.Collection: Prayer
An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop.Collection: Men
Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.Collection: Prayer
To lay hold of and receive the gospel by a true and saving faith is an act of the soul that has been made a new creature, which is the workmanship of God... Wherefore whoever receiveth the grace that is tendered in the gospel, they must be quickened by the power of God, their eyes must be opened, their understandings illuminated, their ears unstopped, their hearts circumcised, their wills also rectified, and the Son of God revealed in them.Collection: Heart
There is enough sin in my best prayer to send the whole world to Hell.Collection: Prayer
Fear, lest, by forgetting what you are by nature, you also forget the need that you have of continual pardon, support, and supplies from the Spirit of grace, and so grow proud of your own abilities, or of what you have received from God.Collection: Support
The heart, when broken, is like sweet gums and spices when beaten; for as such cast their fragrant scent into the nostrils of men, so the heart, when broken, casts its sweet smell into the nostrils of God.Collection: Sweet
The greatness of God, of the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, is that, if rightly considered, which will support the spirits of those of his people that are frighted with the greatness of their adversaries.Collection: Jesus
A comely sight indeed it is to see, a world of blossoms on an apple tree.Collection: Inspirational
A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.Collection: Prayer
He that doth righteousness; that is, righteousness which the gospel calleth so, is righteous; that is, precedent to, or before he doth that righteousness. For he doth not say, he shall make his person righteous by acts of righteousness that he shall do; for then an evil tree may bear good fruit, yea, and make itself good by doing so; but he saith, He that doth righteousness is righteous; as he saith, He that doth righteousness is born of him.Collection: Evil
As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a den; and I laid me down in that place to sleep: and as I slept I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and behold I saw a man clothed with rags, standing in a certain place, with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. I looked, and saw him open the book, and read therein; and as he read, he wept and trembled: and not being able longer to contain, he brake out with a lamentable cry; saying, 'What shall I do?'Collection: Dream
Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.Collection: Christian
The same yesterday, today, and forever.Collection: Christian
If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.Collection: Oysters
All that the Father giveth me SHALL COME... Here, therefore, the Lord Jesus positively determineth to put forth such a sufficiency of all grace as shall effectually perform this promise. They shall come; that is, he will CAUSE them to come, by infusing of an effectual blessing into all the means that shall be used to that end.Collection: Jesus
The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.Collection: Nature
God speaks once, yea twice, yet Man perceiveth it not, in a Dream, in a Vision of the night, when deep Sleep falleth upon men, in slumbering upon the bed. We need not, when abed, to lie awake to talk with God, he can visit us while we sleep, and cause us then to hear his Voice. Our heart oft-times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awakeCollection: Dream
Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion.Collection: Strong
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.Collection: Father
Their bodies will be raised from the dead as vessels for the soul-vessels of wrath. The soul will breathe hell-fire, and smoke and coal will seem to hang upon its burning lips, yea the face, eyes, and ears will seem to be chimneys and vents for the flame, and the smoke of the burning , which God, by His breath, hath kindled therein, and upon, them, which will be held one in another, to the great torment and distress of each other.Collection: Eye