Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ
by John Bunyan
In this 1678 exposition of John 6:37, Bunyan systematically dismantles every excuse a troubled soul might raise for staying away from Christ, addressing objections about unworthiness, backsliding, and doubt one by one. Of all his writings it most fully expresses his delight in the free and gracious welcome Christ extends to sinners who come to him.
Based on Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ (1678), by John Bunyan
Puritan quotes
Quotes by John Bunyan
“But I am a great sinner, sayest thou. 'I will in no wise cast out,' says Christ. But I am an old sinner, sayest thou. 'I will in no wise cast out,' says Christ.”
“Words will not do with Jesus Christ. Coming is coming, and nothing else will go for coming with him.”
“Unbelief is the daughter of Ignorance.”
“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.”
