John Bunyan Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

  John Bunyan

  Jesus, Prayer, 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.96

• One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.

  John Bunyan

  Ships, Sin, Leaks

  'The Pilgrim's Progress' (1684) pt. 2

• If thou hast sinned, lie not down without repentance; for the want of repentance, after one has sinned, makes the heart yet harder and harder.

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Lying, Heart

  "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".

• 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.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Heart, Sacrifice

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.659, 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

• The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, World, Had Enough

• No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.

  John Bunyan

  Forgiveness, Children, Degrees

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.858, Delphi Classics

• 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

• 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.

  John Bunyan

  Fall, Heart, Hands

  John Bunyan (1869). “The Select Works of John Bunyan: Containing the Pilgrim's Progress ... with a Life of the Author”, p.85

• Here is the life of prayer, when in or with the Spirit, a man being made sensible of sin, and how to come to the Lord for mercy; he comes, I say, in the strength of the Spirit, and crieth Father. That one word spoken in faith is better than a thousand prayers, as men call them, written and read, in a formal, cold, lukewarm way.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Father, Men

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.1858, Delphi Classics

• The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.

  John Bunyan

  Men, Law, Religion

• Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.

  John Bunyan

  Hurt, Grieving, Temptation

  John Bunyan (1997). “Your Victory in Christ”, Whitaker Distribution

• Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.

  John Bunyan

  Men, Noble, World

  John Bunyan (2011). “Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (Authentic Original Classic)”, p.33, Destiny Image Publishers

• The law, instead of cleansing the heart from sin, doth revive it, put strength into, and increase it in the soul, even as it doth discover and forbid it, for it doth not give power to subdue.

  John Bunyan

  Heart, Law, Giving

  John Bunyan (2013). “The Pilgrim’s Progress Simplified: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.171, BookCaps Study Guides

• Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.

  John Bunyan

  Trials, Affliction, May

  John Bunyan (1873). “The Complete Works”, p.79

• He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.

  John Bunyan

  Looks, Wheat, Sin

  1684 The Pilgrim's Progress, pt.2.

• There is enough sin in my best prayer to send the whole world to Hell.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, World, Sin

• A tender heart is a wakeful, watchful heart. It watches against sin in the soul, sin in the family, sin in the calling, sin in spiritual duties and performances.

  John Bunyan

  Spiritual, Heart, Soul

  John Bunyan (2015). “The Acceptable Sacrifice”, p.60, Gideon House Books

• Faith is a fruit, work, or gift of the Spirit of God, whereby a poor soul is enabled through the mighty operation of God, in a sense of its sins and wretched estate to lay hold on the righteousness, blood, death, resurrection, ascension, intercession, and coming again of the Son of God which was crucified without the gates of Jerusalem, for eternal life.

  John Bunyan

  Son, Blood, Gifts Of The Spirit

  John Bunyan, George Offor (1862). “The Whole Works of John Bunyan: Accurately Reprinted from the Authors Own Editions ; Wth Editorial Prefaces, Notes, and Life of Bunyan”, p.134

• 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

• 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

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