John Bunyan Quotes About Heaven

Quotes about: Heaven

• Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Flower, Fall

  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.75

• And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth!

  John Bunyan

  Heaven, World, Earth

  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

• Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.

  John Bunyan

  Heaven, Way, Saws

  'The Pilgrim's Progress' (1678) pt. 1

• 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

• Farewell, I wish our souls may meet with comfort at the journey's end.- The Heavenly Footman: A Puritan's View of How to Get to Heaven.

  John Bunyan

  Farewell, Journey, Views

• The kingdom of heaven is for the heirs - and if children, then heirs; if born again, then heirs. Wherefore it is said expressly, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. By this one word, down goes all carnal privilege of being born of flesh and blood, and of the will of man. Canst thou produce the birthright?

  John Bunyan

  Children, Men, Blood

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.1323, Delphi Classics

• Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.

  John Bunyan

  Truth, Smell, Heaven

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.1030, Delphi Classics

• 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

• To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Blessed, Heaven

  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.97

• 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

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