John Bunyan Quotes

The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life.

Everybody wants to go to heaven but very few people are willing to die.

Saints are simply men & women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

Blessed are they who feel like pilgrims and strangers in this life, and whose best things are all to come!

All would wish to be saved and to enjoy the glory of paradise; but to gain heaven, it is necessary to walk in the straight road that leads to eternal bliss. This road is the observance of the divine commandments. Hence, in his preaching, the Baptist exclaimed: Make straight the way of the Lord.

Secretly incredible people keep what they do as one of God's best-kept secrets because the only one who needs to know - the God of the universe - already knows.

Once upon a time, a man named Fred Rogers decided that he wanted to live in heaven.

God gave me talent, He gave me gifts in order to magnify Him.

I hope when I'm 80 that I get to Heaven and God doesn't recognise me.

Once more consider, there is nothing, but heaven, worth setting our hearts upon.

We no longer have the luxury of spending our energy on anything that does not lead us and our families to Christ.

Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.

I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has not been lost: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond expectation, waiting for him in 'the High Countries'.

The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them.

Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other.

True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.

We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way of joy.

Eternity will be wonderful, but there is one thing heaven will not contain, and that is the call, the possibility, and the privilege of living a supernatural life here and now by faith, before we meet Jesus face to face.

Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.

Religion is intended to facilitate hope and faith. Much like a path is intended to facilitate a journey.

Tremendous human energy is needed to walk God's walk, work God's work, fulfill God's will, and complete his dream for our self-esteem.

A space in Paradise equivalent to the size of a foot would be better than the world and what is in it.

To God, our journey is JUST as important as our destination!

Unhappiness on earth cultivates a hunger for heaven. By gracing us with a deep dissatisfaction, God holds our attention.

Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.