Prayer
by John Bunyan
This Puritan Paperback gathers two of John Bunyan's works on prayer, written from Bedford jail after he refused to conform to set liturgical forms. Bunyan defines what real prayer is, insists it must rise from the heart in the strength of the Spirit rather than from rehearsed words, and shows how believers may draw near to God through the ministry of Christ.
Based on I Will Pray with the Spirit (1662), by John Bunyan
Puritan quotes
Quotes by John Bunyan
“Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the heart or soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Holy Spirit, for such things as God hath promised.”
“There is in prayer an unbosoming of a man's self, an opening of the heart to God, an affectionate pouring out of the soul in requests, sighs, and groans.”
“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.”
