John Bunyan

“Then said he, ’I am going to my Father’s; and though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me that I have fought His battles who now will be my rewarder.’.... So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.”

“Aquele que já está no chão não precisa de cair; Aquele que desceu ao mais baixo não precisa de ter orgulho.”

“Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.”

“I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.”

“Whoso beset him roundWith dismal storiesDo but themselves confound;His strength the more is.”

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

“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.”

“Now may this little Book a blessing beTo 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.”

“This hill, though high, I covet to ascend; The difficulty will not me offend. For I perceive the way to life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear. Better, though difficult, the right way to go, Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.”

“Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.”

“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. ”

“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.”

“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.”

“It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.”

“a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.”

“I live because I am a Warrior and because I wish one day to be in the company of [She] for whom I have fought so hard”

“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.”

“Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion.”

“I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?”

“He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.”

“The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction”

“What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.”

“When you pray, rather let your heart be without words then your words without heart. ”

“Just as Christian came up to the Cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, fell from off his back, and began to tumble down the hill, and so it continued to do till it came to the mouth of the sepulchre. There it fell in, and I saw it no more!”

“Fear, lest, by forgetting what you are by nature, you also forget the need that you have of continual pardon, support, and supplies from the Spirit of grace, and so grow proud of your own abilities, or of what you have received from God.”

“I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.”

“It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.”

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”

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

“One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner.”