Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
1678
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
1678
Imagine the entire landscape of your soul mapped out as a dangerous road through a country teeming with enemies, false friends, and unexpected helpers. This is the world John Bunyan created from a prison cell in 1678, and it has been echoing through the hearts of readers ever since. The Pilgrim's Progress tells the story of Christian, a man burdened with an unbearable weight on his back, who flees the doomed City of Destruction after reading a book that tells him the city will soon be burned with fire. His neighbors think him mad. His wife and children beg him to stay. But he cannot stay, because he has seen something that changes everything. What follows is a journey through the Slough of Despond, past the tangled snare of the Flatterer, through the terrible Valley of the Shadow of Death, and toward a shining city whose streets are paved with gold. Yet this is no simple morality tale. Bunyan writes with such raw humanity that Christian's doubts feel like your own, his fear palpably real, his moments of joy hard-won and precious. Four centuries later, this remains the book people reach for when words fail them, when the journey seems too long, when they need to remember that someone, somewhere, understood exactly what it costs to keep walking toward the light.
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“While I write, the youth come fresh in my way. Dear young people, choose God for your portion; love his truth, and be not ashamed of it; choose for your company such as serve him in uprightness; and shun as most dangerous the conversation of those whose lives are of an ill savor; for by frequenting such company some hopeful young people have come to great loss, and been drawn from less evils to greater, to their utter ruin. In the bloom of youth no ornament is so lovely as that of virtue, nor any enjoyments equal to those which we partake of in fully resigning ourselves to the Divine will. These enjoyments add sweetness to all other comforts, and give true satisfaction in company and conversation, where people are mutually acquainted with it; and as your minds are thus seasoned with the truth, you will find strength to abide steadfast to the testimony of it, and be prepared for services in the church.””
— John Bunyan
“Anthony Benezet,””
— John Bunyan
“If it seemeth to thee that thou knowest many things, and understandest them well, know also that there are many more things which thou knowest not.””
— John Bunyan
“Whatsoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.””
— John Bunyan
“to take upon us by inoculation when in health a disorder of which some die, requires great clearness of knowledge that it is our duty to do so.””
— John Bunyan
“This disease being in a house, and my business calling me to go near it, incites me to consider whether this is a real indispensable duty; whether it is not in conformity to some custom which would be better laid aside, or, whether it does not proceed from too eager a pursuit after some outward treasure. If the business before me springs not from a clear understanding and a regard to that use of things which perfect wisdom approves, to be brought to a sense of it and stopped in my pursuit is a kindness, for when I proceed to business without some evidence of duty, I have found by experience that it tends to weakness.””
— John Bunyan
“In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves””
— John Bunyan
“The others all followed, dispirited and shamefaced, and only much later were they able to regain their former affectation of indifference.””
— John Bunyan
“sent a pack of hounds and huntsmen on ahead to find the quarry, mounted his chestnut Donets, and whistling to his own leash of borzois,””
— John Bunyan
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