Author: John Bunyan

Cites

• John Bunyan (1)
  • IN: The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Sinners, who feel the burden of their sin, No rest can find, no happiness can know, Till they a life of pilgrimage begin, And to the Savior for instruction go, Desponding fears their faith may sharply try, The worldly wise may lead their steps astray; Yet from Mount Sinai they to Christ may fly, And find in Him "a new and living way."
    FROM: NULL, (1678), Author, UK
• Bible (5)
  • IN: The doctrine of the law & grace unfolded: or, a discourse touching the law and grace (1701) Non-fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: To him therefore that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his Faith is counted for righteousness
    FROM: Bible, Romans 4:5, (100), Bible, NULL
  • IN: The pilgrim's progress, from this world to That which is to come: The Second Part. Delivered under the Similitude of a dream. Wherein is set forth The manner of the setting out of Christian's Wife and Children; their Dangerous Journey, and Safe Arrival at the desired Country. (1702) Book, British
    EPIGRAPH: I have used Similitudes.
    FROM: Hosea 12:10, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: The heavenly foot-man: or a description of the man that gets to heaven. Together with the way he runs in, the marks he goes by: Also some Directions how to Run so as to Obtain. By John Bunyan. To which is added, The Life and Death of the said John Bunyan, with a Catalogue of all Mr. Bunyan's Writings. (1708) Non-Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that they said, escape Son, thy Life, look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the Plain: Escape to the Mountain, left thou be Cnosumed.
    FROM: Genesis 19:17, (-165), Bible, NULL

Cited by

• Christopher Hope (1)
  • IN: Kruger's Alp (1984) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Pray, did you never hear what happened to a man some time ago of this town (whose name was Christian) that went on a Pilgrimage up towards the higher regions?
    FROM: Pilgrim's Progress, (1678), NULL, UK
• Elon Dann (2)
  • IN: Awe of Mercury (2014) Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Whoso beset him round / With dismal stores, / Do but themselves confound; / His strength the more is. / No lion can him fright, / He'll with a giant fight, / But he will have a right / To be a pilgrim. / Hobgoblin nor foul fiend / Can daunt his spirit; / He knows he at the end / Shall life inhereit. / Then fancies fly away, / He'll fear not what men say, / He'll labour night and day / To be a pilgrim.
    FROM: To Be a Pilgrim, (1678), Hymn, UK
• Louisa May Alcott (1)
  • IN: Little Women (1953) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Go then, my little Book, and show to all That entertain, and bid thee welcome shall, What thou dost keep close shut up in ty breast; And wish what thou dost show them choose to be blest To them for good, may make them choose to be Pilgrims better, by far, than thee or me. Tell them of Mercy; she is one Who early hath her pilgrimage begun. Yea, let young damsels learn of her to prize The world which is to come, and so be wise; For little tripping maids may follow God Along the ways which saintly feet have trod.
    FROM: The Pilgrim's Progress, (1678), Book, UK
• John Bunyan (1)
  • IN: The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Sinners, who feel the burden of their sin, No rest can find, no happiness can know, Till they a life of pilgrimage begin, And to the Savior for instruction go, Desponding fears their faith may sharply try, The worldly wise may lead their steps astray; Yet from Mount Sinai they to Christ may fly, And find in Him "a new and living way."
    FROM: NULL, (1678), Author, UK
• Rachel Joyce (1)
  • IN: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Who would true valour see, Let him come hither; One here will constant be Come wind, come weather. There's no discouragement Shall make him once relent His first avowed intent To be a pilgrim.
    FROM: The Pilgrim's Progress, (1678), Novel, UK
• Reginald Hill (1)
  • IN: On Beulah Height (1998) Fiction, Crime, American
    EPIGRAPH: Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.
    FROM: The Pilgrim's Progress, (1678), Novel, US
• David Gates (1)
  • IN: Preston Falls (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: So I saw in my dream that the man began to run. Now, he had not run far from his own door, but his wife and children perceiving it, began to cry after him to return; but the man put his fingers in his ears, and ran on, crying, "Life! life! eternal life!"
    FROM: The Pilgrim's Progress, (1678), Novel, UK
• L. Sayers, Dorothy (1)
  • IN: Clouds of Witness (1926) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "The women also looked pale and wan."
    FROM: The Pilgrim's Progress, (1678), Novel, UK
• John Mortimer (1)
  • IN: The Sound of Trumpets (1998) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ... So he passed over, and the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.
    FROM: The Pilgrim's Progress (Mr Valiant-for-Truth), (1678), Novel, UK
• Herman Melville (1)
  • IN: Moby-Dick (1851) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Silly Mansoul swallowed it without chewing, as if it had been a sprat in the mouth of a whale.
    FROM: Pilgrim's Progress, (1678), Novel, UK
• Janette Turner Hospital (1)
  • IN: Due Preparations for the Plague (2003) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: The name of the slough was Despond.
    FROM: Pilgrim's Progress, (1678), Novel, UK
• Thomas M. Disch (1)
  • IN: Camp Concentration (1968) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Now, reader, I have told my dream to thee; See if thou canst interpret it to me, Or to thyself, or neighbor. But take heed Of misinterpreting; for that, instead Of doing good, will but thyself abuse. By misinterpreting evil issues. Take heed, also, that thou be not extreme, In playing with the outside of my dream. Nor let my figure, or similitude, Put thee into a laughter or a feud; Leave this for boys and fools; but as for thee, Do thou the substance of my matter see. Put by the curtains; look within my veil; Turn up my metaphors and do not fail. There, if thou seekst them, such things to find, As will be helpful to an honest mind. What of my dress thou findest there, be bold To throw away, but yet preserve the gold. What if my gold be wrapped in ore? None throws away the apple for the core. But if thou shalt cast all away as vain, I know not but 'twill make me dream again.
    FROM: The Pilgrim's Progress, (1678), Novel, UK
• Elizabeth Jolley (1)
  • IN: Foxybaby (1985) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: . . . Then I saw that there was a way to Hell, even from the Gates of Heaven, as well as from the City of Destruction. So I awoke, and behold it was a dream.
    FROM: The Pilgrim's Progress, (1678), Novel, UK
• Mallory Ortberg (1)
  • IN: The Merry Spinster (2018) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: With that Christian brake out with a loud voice: Oh, I see him again! and he tells me, "When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee, and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee." Then they both took courage, and the enemy was after that as still as a stone, until they were gone over. Christian therefore presently found ground to stand upon; and so it followed that the rest of the river was but shallow. Thus they got over.
    FROM: The Pilgrim's Progress, (1678), Novel, UK
• Hugh Walpole (1)
  • IN: Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill (1911) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The way here also was very wearisome through dirt and shabbiness: nor was there on all this ground so much as one inn or victualling-house wherein to refresh the feebler sort.
    FROM: Pilgrim's Progress, (1678), Novel, UK