John Bunyan Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• 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.

  John Bunyan

  Punishment, People, Want

• Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!

  John Bunyan

  Father, Angel, Joy

  John Bunyan (1831). “The works of that eminent servant of Christ, John Bunyan: minister of the gospel and formerly Pastor of a Congregatin at Bedford”, p.98

• I saw, moreover, that it was not my good frame of heart that made my righteousness better, nor my bad frame that made my righteousness worse; for my righteousness was Jesus Christ himself, the same yesterday and today and forever.

  John Bunyan

  Jesus, Heart, Yesterday And Today

  John Bunyan (1811). “Choice Works: Containing Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners: Heart's Ease in Heart Trouble: The World to Come, Or Visions of Heaven and Hell: The Barren Fig-tree: and The River of Water of Life”, p.75

• If you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the Man Christ without, and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, you are not able to divide the word aright; but contrariwise, you corrupt the word of God.

  John Bunyan

  Men, Differences, Able

  John Bunyan (1850). “The Riches of Bunyan”, p.140

• Grace can pardon our ungodliness and justify us with Christ's righteousness; it can put the Spirit of Jesus Christ within us; it can help us when we are down; it can heal us when we are wounded; it can multiply pardons, as we through frailty multiply transgressions.

  John Bunyan

  Jesus, Grace, Spirit

  John Bunyan (1850). “The Riches of Bunyan”, p.89

• 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.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Soul, Pouring

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.1846, Delphi Classics

• Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.

  John Bunyan

  Sin, Christ, Righteousness

  John Bunyan (1853). “The Works of John Bunyan: With an Introduction to Each Treatise, Notes, and a Sketch of His Life, Times, and Contemporaries ...”, p.303

• Doth Jesus Christ stand up to plead for us with God, to plead with him for us against the devil? Let this teach us to stand up to plead for him before men, to plead for him against the enemies of his person and gospel.

  John Bunyan

  Jesus, Men, Enemy

  John Bunyan (1862). “The Whole Works of John Bunyan ...: Reprinted from the Author's Own Editions”, p.198

• It gave me no pleasure to see people drink in my opinions if they seemed ignorant of Jesus Christ and the value of being saved by Him. Sound conviction for sin, especially the sin of unbelief, and a heart set on fire to be saved by Christ, with a strong yearning for a truly sanctified soul-this was what delighted me; those were the souls I considered blessed.

  John Bunyan

  Strong, Jesus, Blessed

• 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.

  John Bunyan

  Jesus, Father, Greatness

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.2153, Delphi Classics

• He that comes to Christ cannot, it is true, always get on as fast as he would. Poor coming soul, thou art like the man that would ride full gallop whose horse will hardly trot. Now the desire of his mind is not to be judged of by the slow pace of the dull jade he rides on, but by the hitching and kicking and spurring as he sits on his back. Thy flesh is like this dull jade, it will not gallop after Christ, it will be backward though thy soul and heaven lie at stake.

  John Bunyan

  Art, Horse, Lying

• There hath not one tear dropped from thy tender eye against thy lusts, the love of this world, or for more communion with Jesus Christ, but as it is now in the bottle of God.

  John Bunyan

  Jesus, Eye, Lust

  John Bunyan, George Whitefield (1768). “The Works of that Eminent Servant of Christ, Mr. John Bunyan: The holy war. The desire of the righteous granted. The saint's privilege and profit. Christ a compleat saviour. The saints knowledge of Christ's love. A discourse of the house of the forest of Lebanon. Of Anti-christ and his ruin. Saved by grace. Christian behaviour. A discourse touching prayer. The strait gate. Some gospel-truths opened. A vindication of gospel-truths opened. Light for them that sit in darkness. Instruction for the i”, p.639

• Without the Spirit man is so infirm that he cannot, with all other means whatsoever, be enabled to think one right saving thought of God, of Christ, or of his blessed things.

  John Bunyan

  Blessed, Mean, Men

  John Bunyan (1831). “The works of that eminent servant of Christ, John Bunyan: minister of the gospel and formerly Pastor of a Congregatin at Bedford”, p.541

• Every time you have with your mouth said well of godliness, and yet gone on in wickedness; or every time you have condemned sin in others, and yet have not refrained it yourselves; I say, every such word and conclusion that hath passed out of thy mouth, sinner, it shall be as a witness against thee in the day of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

  John Bunyan

  Jesus, Gone, Wickedness

  John Bunyan (1841). “Doctrinal discourses [selected works].”, p.553

• Therefore if mine enemy hunger, let me feed him; if he thirst, let me give him drink. Now in order to do this, (1) We must see good in that, in which other men can see none. (2) We must pass by those injuries that other men would revenge. (3) We must show we have grace, and that we are made to bear what other men are not acquainted with. (4) Many of our graces are kept alive, by those very things that are the death of other men's souls.... The devil, (they say) is good when he is pleased; but Christ and His saints, when displeased.

  John Bunyan

  Revenge, Men, Order

• 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.

  John Bunyan

  Hate, Heart, Men

  John Bunyan (1851). “Christian Behaviour: A Holy Life, the Beauty of Christianity, the Fear of God, and an Exhortation to Unity and Peace to which is Added a Caution Against Sin”, p.322

• Great sins do draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ, when showed to the soul, appears most high and mighty.

  John Bunyan

  Mercy Of God, Grace, Soul

  John Bunyan (1869). “The Select Works of John Bunyan: Containing the Pilgrim's Progress ... with a Life of the Author”, p.459

• Be of good cheer, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole.

  John Bunyan

  Jesus, Cheer, Christ

  James Thomas, John Bunyan (2009). “Pilgrim's Progress in Today's English”, p.92, Moody Publishers

• Therefore, I bind these lies and slanderous accusations to my person as an ornament; it belongs to my Christian profession to be vilified, slandered, reproached and reviled, and since all this is nothing but that, as God and my conscience testify, I rejoice in being reproached for Christ's sake.

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Lying, Ornaments

• Men, even the elect, have too many infirmities to come to Christ without help from heaven; inviting will not do.

  John Bunyan

  Men, Heaven, Helping

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.1241, Delphi Classics

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin