The Fear of God
by John Bunyan
Written in 1679, the year after Pilgrim's Progress appeared, Bunyan takes up a theme most believers misunderstand and shows that true fear of God is not cringing dread but reverent, worshipful awe rooted in grace. He traces where this fear comes from, who possesses it, and the privileges it brings, distinguishing godly fear from the false fears that counterfeit it.
Based on A Treatise of the Fear of God (1679), by John Bunyan
Puritan quotes
Quotes by John Bunyan
“Rightly to fear the Lord is a sign of a gracious heart.”
“The whole of our service to God, and every part thereof, ought to be done by us with reverence and godly fear.”
“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.”
