Pilgrims Progress Quotes

The name of the Slough was Despond.

The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.

Saying and doing are two things.

For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.

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

It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity.

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

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.

It is imperative that the past of the pilgrims' progress be intentionally carried forward into the present as we work into our future. Without it we cannot know who we are, why we are here, or where we can go. Without a common past to live out of we become aimless and wandering individuals instead of a pilgrim people.

A saint abroad, and a devil at home.

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

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.

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

He that is down needs fear no fall.

To go back is nothing but death; but to go forward is fear of death and life everlasting beyond.

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.

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.

Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass - "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners."

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

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.

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

The more he cast away, the more he had.

What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.

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?