John Bunyan Quotes

So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts: but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?

They err … who think that virtue consists of words .. good actions are the glory of virtue.

Within the frontiers of a state, there are no more than ten people who do good of themselves, whereas if one makes it so that the people can do no wrong, the entire state can be kept peaceful.

Anyone who tells you to deny yourself is from Satan.

God has no grandchildren. He has only children, so being a born-again Christian is not an automatic thing.

I do believe that when you are a good person, good things will happen to you.

He who has a living faith in God will not do evil deeds with name of God on his lips.

And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .

If you have done good, set your mind upon it so that it may be repeated over and over again. Allow yourself to be pleased by good. Accumulating good is joyful.

The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.

By doing good we become good.

By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.

You are either a Christian or you are not a Christian; you cannot be partly a Christian. You are either "dead" or "alive"; you are either "born" or "not born".

If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.

Evil is not interesting. What is it, chopping off someone's head? We used to do that as kids, you know, you tear up paper dolls and stuff. I know everyone's done it in the history of the world, but maybe everybody was dumb and they were just looking for something interesting to do. What's really interesting and hard is being good.

Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good.

We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed.

Yes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but everyone forgets the second half of that quote: the road to heaven is paved with good actions.

Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

The religion of both Old and New Testaments is marked by fervent outspoken testimonies against evil. To speak smooth things in such a case may be sentimentalism, but it is not Christianity. It is a betrayal of the cause of truth and righteousness.