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John Bunyan Biography

John Bunyan (/ˈbʌnjən/; baptised on November 30, 1628 – August 31, 1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress. In addition to The Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons.

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In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.

Affliction, Christian, Commonly, Disappointment, Grace, Meet

If you are not a praying person, you are not a Christian.

Christian, Person, Persons, Praying

Humility is the light of the understanding.

Humility, Light, Understanding

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

Bestows, Poor, Poverty, Ten, Wealth

I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.

Cities, City, Come, Four, Intelligence, Stupidity

A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.

Prayer, Prevails, Spirit, Thankfulness, Thanksgiving

Now, I saw, upon a time, when he was walking in the fields, that he was, as he was wont, reading in his book, and greatly distressed in his mind; and, as he read, he burst out, as he had done before, crying, What shall I do to be saved?

Book, Burst, Fields, Reading, Saved, Time

Such is the effect of the grace of God in the heart of a pilgrim; while on one hand he sees the propensity of his evil nature to every sin which has been committed by others, and is humbled; he also confesses, that, by no power of his own, is he preserved, but ever gives the glory to the God of all grace, by whose power alone he is kept from falling.

Fall, God, Hands, Heart, Power, Sin

The covetous man feareth not God. This also is plain from the word because it setteth covetousness and the fear of God in direct opposition. Men that fear God are said to hate covetousness, Exod. xviii. 21. Besides the covetous man is called an idolater and is said to have no part in the kingdom of Christ and of God, Col. iii. 5. And again; 'The wicked boasteth of his heart's desire and blesseth the covetous whom the Lord abhorreth,' Psa. x. 3.

Desire, Fear, Hate, Heart, Idolater, Men

Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.

Insomnia, Man, Sleep, Sweet

Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.

Bible, Christian, God, Men, Pray, Read

Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy.

Care, Happy, Mad, Men, Sae, See

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.

Against, Eve, Heart, Lying, Men

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

Day, Intercession, Morning, Running, Scarcely

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.

Support, Grace, Needs, Pardon, Abilities

What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.

Bosom, Confidence, Dungeon, Greatness, Lying, Walk

There is a warning here for true pilgrims. Beware of the talker, but also be careful not to judge too quickly those whom God has blessed with both genuine grace and a fluency to speak of divine mercy in ways more eloquent than others. The proof is in the life-not a perfect life, but a life that both delights in divine truth and magnifies God, the only giver of the sovereign grace that always produces the truly fruitful, fragrant life.

Blessed, Grace, Judging, Perfect, Truth, Ways

Prayer is an ordinance of God, that must continue with a soul so long as it is on this side glory.

Continue, Long, Ordinance, Prayer, Soul

He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.

Forget, Forgets, Friend, Saviour, Ungrateful, Unmerciful

I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.

Earth, Love, Shoe, Shoes, Wherever

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