Sin is...

“Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, the slight of His power, and the contempt of His love”
   ~ John Bunyan

You can do more than pray

“You can do more than pray, after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed”
    ~ John Bunyan

He who runs from God in the morning

“He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find him the rest of the day”
   ~ John Bunyan

If you have sinned

“If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes the heart yet harder and harder”
   ~ John Bunyan

Pray often

“Pray often; for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan”
   ~ John Bunyan

When you pray

“When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.”
   ~ John Bunyan

Cease from sin

“Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer” 

 ~ John Bunyan

How Should We Teach our Children to Pray?

"Men learn to pray by conviction for sin, and this is the way to make our children do so too. But the other way, namely, to be busy in teaching children forms of prayer, before they know anything else, it is the way to make them cursed hypocrites, and to puff them up with pride.

Teach therefore your children to know their wretched state and condition; tell them of hellfire and their sins, of damnation, and salvation; the way to escape the one, and to enjoy the other, and this will bring tears to their eyes, and make hearty growns flow from their hearts; and then also you may tell them to whom they should pray, and through whom they should pray : you may tell them also of God's promises, and his former grace extended to sinners, according to the Word."
-John Bunyan

His Free Grace and Holy Ways

Let the most Blessed be my Guide,
If’t be his blessed Will,
Unto his Gate, into his Fold,
Up to his Holy Hill:
And let him never suffer me
To swerve or turn aside
From his Free Grace, and Holy Ways,
Whate’er shall me betide

~ John Bunyan

The Pilgrim’s Progress