All Loves Excelling
by John Bunyan
A close exposition of Ephesians 3:18-19, in which John Bunyan urges believers to grasp the breadth, length, depth, and height of Christ's love, a love that finally passes knowledge. Originally titled The Saints' Knowledge of Christ's Love, it argues that no affliction, sin, or distance can outrun a mercy larger than all of them, showing that assurance rests not on the believer's worthiness but on the immeasurable love of God in Christ.
Based on The Saints' Knowledge of Christ's Love (1692), by John Bunyan
Puritan quotes
Quotes by John Bunyan
“Truths are often delivered to us like wheat in full ears, to the end we should rub them out before we eat them, and take pains about them before we have the comfort of them.”
“God has a long arm, and he can reach a great way further than we can conceive he can.”
“He that is down needs fear no fall. He that is low, no pride; He that is humble, ever shall have God to be his Guide.”
“Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think it; otherwise man's heart would never have been compared to fallow ground and God's Word to a plough.”
“The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.”
“You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.”
“In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.”
“Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.”
“Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.”
“Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.”
