Prayer is a shield to the soul a sacrifice to God and a scourge for Satan.

— John Bunyan

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

— John Bunyan

Saint abroad and a devil at home.

— John Bunyan

So he had them into the slaughterhouse, where was a butcher killing a sheep. And behold, the sheep was quiet and took her death patiently. Then said the Interpreter, "You must learn of this sheep to suffer, and put up wrongs without murmurings and complaints. Behold how quietly she takes her death! And without objecting she suffered her skin to be pulled over her ears. Your King doth call you his sheep.

— John Bunyan

The best prayers have often more groans than words.

— John Bunyan

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

Then Apollo straddled quite over the whole breadth of the way, and said "I am void of fear in this matter. Prepare thyself to die; for I swear by my infernal den, that thou go no farther: here will I spill thy soul.

— John Bunyan

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

— 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 rewarded.’.... So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

— John Bunyan

There is in Jesus Christ more merit and righteousness than the whole world has need of.

— John Bunyan