English writer & Puritan preacher (1628-1688)
If I look narrowly into the best of what I do now, I still see sin, new sin, mixing itself with the best of that I do; so that now I am forced to conclude that, notwithstanding my former fond conceits of myself and duties, I have committed sin enough in one duty to send me to hell, though my former life had been faultless.
JOHN BUNYAN
The Pilgrim's Progress
Every fat must stand upon its own bottom.
JOHN BUNYAN
The Pilgrim's Progress
Yea, if a man have all knowledge, he may yet be nothing, and so, consequently, be no child of God. When Christ said, "Do you know all these things?" and the disciples had answered yes, he added, "Blessed are ye if ye do them." He doth not lay the blessing in the knowing of them, but in the doing of them: "He that knoweth his Master's will, and doeth not." A man may know like an angel, and yet be no Christian.
JOHN BUNYAN
The Pilgrim's Progress
My name is now Christian; but my name at the first was Graceless.
JOHN BUNYAN
The Pilgrim's Progress