John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress (1679)

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I am going to my Fathers, and tho' with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword, I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me, that I have fought his battles, who will now be my rewarder.
Mr Valiant-for-Truth

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One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner.

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Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.

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He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

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The gentleman's name was Mr. Worldly-Wise-Man.

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Now, I saw, upon a time, when he was walking in the fields, that he was, as he was wont, reading in his book, and greatly distressed in his mind; and, as he read, he burst out, as he had done before, crying, What shall I do to be saved?

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A man there was, tho' some did count him mad,
The more he cast away, the more he had.

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The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.

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The name of the one was Obstinate and the name of the other Pliable.

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A great horror and darkness fell upon Christian.

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Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

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Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion.

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Some said, "John, print it;" others said, "Not so."
Some said, "It might do good;" others said, "No."

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Christian: Gentlemen, Whence came you, and whither do you go?
Formalist And Hypocrisy: We were born in the land of Vainglory, and we are going for praise to Mount Sion.

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So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

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What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

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As I walked through the wilderness of this world.

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I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.

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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.

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I have formerly lived by hearsay and faith, but now I go where I shall live by sight, and shall be with Him in whose company I delight myself.
Mr Standfast

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It is an hard matter for a man to go down into the valley of Humiliation.

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No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.

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They are for religion when in rags and contempt; but I am for him when he walks in his golden slippers, in the sunshine and with applause.

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Difficulties, lions, or Vanity-Fair, he feared not at all: 'twas only sin, death, and Hell that was to him a terror.
Of Mr Fearing

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It is easier going out of the way when we are in, than going in when we are out.

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Great sins do draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ, when showed to the soul, appears most high and mighty...

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Fullness to such a burden is
That go on pilgrimage;
Here little, and hereafter bliss,
Is best from age to age.

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Such is the effect of the grace of God in the heart of a pilgrim; while on one hand he sees the propensity of his evil nature to every sin which has been committed by others, and is humbled; he also confesses, that, by no power of his own, is he preserved, but ever gives the glory to the God of all grace, by whose power alone he is kept from falling.

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A foul Fiend coming over the field to meet him; his name is Apollyon.

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There stood a man with his sword drawn, and his face all over with blood. Then said Mr. Great-Heart, Who art thou? The man made answer, saying, I am one whose name is Valiant-for-truth. I am a pilgrim, and am going to the Celestial City.

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