Funny Quote by John Bunyan Download Open image “The name of the Slough was Despond.” — John Bunyan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Funny Inspirational Love Names Pilgrims progress Slough
“The name itself is trouble. “Slough” means, literally, muddy field. A snake sloughs, or sheds, its dead skin. John Bunyan wrote of the “slough of despond” in Pilgrim’s Progress. In the 1930s, John Betjeman wrote this poem about Slough: Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough! It isn’t fit for humans now, There isn’t grass to graze a cow, Swarm… — Eric Weiner Copy Share
In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called to a… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in… — John Milton Copy Share Image
But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain; Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low? — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better… — Andrew Taylor Still Copy Share Image
“XII. If there pushed any ragged thistle-stalk Above its mates, the head was chopped, the bents Were jealous else. What made those holes and… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
On the bare upland pasture there had spread O'ernight 'twixt mullein stalksa wheel of thread And straining cables wet withsilver dew. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Sandy escarpments rose up on the left and forested mesas hugged the right until we dropped off a hill and headed into the Rifle valley. The river was wider here, with waves shimmering white in the sun. What were once hay fields in the flat floodplains were now natural gas pads, pipe yards, compressor stations, and gas plants. One of… — Erik Storey Copy Share
“He walked through the woods like a young Adam, naming creation. I learned to shape my mouth to the words—sasumuneash for cranberry, tunockuquas for frog. So many things grew and lived here that were strange to us, because they had not been in England. We named the things of this place in reference to things that were not of this… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand one day a book of Martin Luthers; it was his Comment on Galatians . . . . I found my condition in his experience so largely and profoundly handled, as if his book had been written out of my heart . . . .… — John Bunyan Copy Share
To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
“it is common for those that have called themselves His servants, after awhile to give Him the slip, and return again to me.” — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
A comely sight indeed it is to see, a world of blossoms on an apple tree. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
“The preeminent job of the church is to equip Christian for life's challenges. This requires the emphasis on being fitted with tested armor. He is tutored in the Word of God. He is encouraged to rely on the Lord alone through faith in His promises and providence. He is drilled in the doctrines of salvation and is encouraged to allow… — John Bunyan Copy Share
“So he had them into the slaughter house, where was a butcher killing a sheep. And behold, the sheep was quiet and took her death patiently. Then said the Interpreter, "You must learn of this sheep to suffer, and put up wrongs without murmurings and complaints. Behold how quietly she takes her death! And without objecting she suffereth her skin… — John Bunyan Copy Share
I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
“...I am for going on, and venturing my eternal state with Christ, whether I have comfort here or no; if God doth not come… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
“Evangelist spoke from his heart with great passion. “You cannot be justified by the works of the law, because it isn’t how one follows the law or the good things they do that rids one of their burden. This makes Worldly Wiseman nothing more than an illegal guide and Mr. Legality a cheat. As for Legality’s son Civility, he is… — John Bunyan Copy Share
God speaks once, yea twice, yet Man perceiveth it not, in a Dream, in a Vision of the night, when deep Sleep falleth upon men, in slumbering upon the bed. We need not, when abed, to lie awake to talk with God, he can visit us while we sleep, and cause us then to hear his Voice. Our heart oft-times… — John Bunyan Copy Share
No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I look at my awesome twitter followers & think to myself, What the hell would I do without them :) — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Congratulations to Facebook on going public with all my private information... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you were to send a werewolf to the moon, would he be a werewolf permanently? — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
