John Bunyan Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand (one day) a book of Martin Luther's ; it was his Comment on the Galatians! ... I found my condition in his experience so largely and profoundly handled, as if his book had been written out of my heart ... I do prefer this book of Martin Luther upon the Galatians, excepting the Holy Bible, before all the books that ever I have seen, as most fit for a wounded conscience.

  John Bunyan

  Book, Heart, Hands

  "The pilgrim's progress: from this world to that which is to come; delivered under the similitude of a dream".

• 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?

  John Bunyan

  Time, Book, Reading

  John Bunyan (2013). “The Pilgrim’s Progress Simplified: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.136, BookCaps Study Guides

• I saw a man clothed with rags . . . a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.

  John Bunyan

  Book, Men, Hands

  John Bunyan (1845). “The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to Come: Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream”, p.1

• Now may this little Book a blessing be To 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.

  John Bunyan

  Book, Blessing, May

  John Bunyan (2013). “The Pilgrim’s Progress Simplified: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.411, BookCaps Study Guides

• I seek a place that can never be destroyed, one that is pure, and that fadeth not away, and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there, to be given, at the time appointed, to them that seek it with all their heart. Read it so, if you will, in my book.

  John Bunyan

  Book, Heart, Heaven

  John Bunyan (2013). “The Pilgrim's Progress”, p.19, Jazzybee Verlag

• 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?'

  John Bunyan

  Dream, Book, Sleep

  John Bunyan (1813). “The Pilgrim's Progress, from this World, to that which is to Come ... with Notes, Interesting Memoirs of the Author, Character of the Pilgrim's Progress, and a Key to the Whole Work ... by Various Eminent Men”, p.1

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