John Bunyan Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  John Bunyan

  Love, Christian, Peace

• 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.

  John Bunyan

  Lying, Heart, Men

• The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Heart, Knees

• Christian, let God's distinguishing love to you be a motive to you to fear Him greatly. He has put His fear in your heart, and may not have given that blessing to your neighbor, perhaps not to your husband, your wife, your child, or your parent. Oh, what an obligation should this thought lay upon your heart to greatly fear the Lord! Remember also that this fear of the Lord is His treasure, a choice jewel, given only to favorites, and to those who are greatly beloved.

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Letting Go, Fear

• To lay hold of and receive the gospel by a true and saving faith is an act of the soul that has been made a new creature, which is the workmanship of God... Wherefore whoever receiveth the grace that is tendered in the gospel, they must be quickened by the power of God, their eyes must be opened, their understandings illuminated, their ears unstopped, their hearts circumcised, their wills also rectified, and the Son of God revealed in them.

  John Bunyan

  Heart, Eye, Son

  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.350

• 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".

• 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

• 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

• Take heed of driving so hard after this world, as to hinder thyself and family from those duties towards God, which thou art by grace obliged to; as private prayer, reading the scriptures, and Christian conference. It is a base thing for men so to spend themselves and families after this world, as that they disengage their heart to God's worship.

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Art, Prayer

  JOHN BUNYAN (1860). “THE ENTIRE WORKS”, p.171

• Faith receiveth the promise, embraceth it, and comforteth the soul unspeakably with it. Faith is so great an artist in arguing and reasoning with the soul, that it will bring over the hardest heart that it hath to deal with. It will bring to my remembrance at once, both my vileness against God, and his goodness towards me; it will show me, that though I deserve not to breathe in the air, yet that God will have me an heir of glory.

  John Bunyan

  Heart, Artist, Air

  JOHN BUNYAN (1860). “THE ENTIRE WORKS”, p.166

• Though it be said that faith cometh by hearing, yet it is the Spirit that worketh faith in the heart through hearing, or else they are not profited by hearing.

  John Bunyan

  Heart, Hearing, Spirit

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.4271, Delphi Classics

• Talkative represents the man or woman who delights in talking about divine things but has only theoretical knowledge of such things. No actual personal heart experience correlates to the matters they love to discuss so eloquently. They are often highly esteemed by others, but those closest to them would quickly betray a life out-of-sync with their words. The mask fashioned by fluency with all subjects divine hides their real life.

  John Bunyan

  Real, Heart, Men

• The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.

  John Bunyan

  Sweet, Heart, Scent

  John Bunyan (1769). “The works of that eminent servant of Christ, Mr. John Bunyan: ... Being several discourses upon various divine subjects. The second edition, with the following additions: I. A preface ... II. Some account of the life and death of the author, ...”, p.506

• It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Heart, Mean

  "The Works of John Bunyan: Experimental, doctrinal, and practical". Book editing by George Offor, Blackie and son, p. 623, 1858.

• Sincerity carries the soul in all simplicity to open its heart to God.

  John Bunyan

  Heart, Simplicity, Soul

  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.532

• 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".

• Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there is no saving... Where there is grafting there will always be a cutting, the graft must be let in with a wound; to stick it onto the outside or to tie it on with a string would be of no use. Heart must be set to heart and back to back or there will be no sap from root to branch. And this, I say, must be done by a wound, by a cut.

  John Bunyan

  Heart, Cutting, Men

• 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

• Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Heart, Knowing

  John Bunyan (1859). “The Works of John Bunyan: Experimental, doctrinal, and practical”, p.102

• 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

• This hill though high I covent ascend; The difficulty will not me offend; For I perceive the way of life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear.

  John Bunyan

  Lying, Heart, Way

• Sincerity is the same in a corner alone, as it is before the face of the world. It knows not how to wear two vizards, one for an appearance before men, and another for a short snatch in a corner; but it must have God, and be with him in the duty of prayer. It is not lip-labour that it doth regard, for it is the heart that God looks at, and that which sincerity looks at, and that which prayer comes from, if it be that prayer which is accompanied with sincerity.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Heart, Men

  John Bunyan (1850). “The works of that eminent servant of Christ ...”

• It is not the mouth that is the main thing to be looked at in prayer, but whether the heart is so full of affection and earnestness in prayer with God, that it is impossible to express their sense and desire; for then a man desires indeed, when his desires are so strong, many, and mighty, that all the words, tears, and groans that can come from the heart, cannot utter them.

  John Bunyan

  Strong, Prayer, Heart

  John Bunyan, Henry Stebbing (1859). “The entire works of John Bunyan”, p.270

• Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.

  John Bunyan

  Heart, Sleep, Speak

  John Bunyan, William Mason (of Rotherithe.) (1814). “The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come: delivered under the similitude of a dream ... In three parts”, p.247

• The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.

  John Bunyan

  Nature, Heart, Fancy

  John Bunyan (1869). “The Select Works of John Bunyan: Containing the Pilgrim's Progress ... with a Life of the Author”, p.137

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