The Pilgrim's Progress (AmazonClassics Edition)

by John Bunyan

this burden upon my back is more terrible to me than all these things which you have mentioned; nay, methinks I care not what I meet with in the way, if so be I can also meet with deliverance from my burden.

This Shame tells me what men are, but it tells me nothing what God, or the Word of God is.

Thus one died to show faithfulness to the truth, and another rises out of his ashes to be a companion with Christian in his pilgrimage.

that unless I could obtain the righteousness of a Man that never had sinned, neither mine own nor all the righteousness of the world could save me.

“My brother, these troubles and distresses that you go through in these waters are no sign that God hath forsaken you; but are sent to try you, whether you will call to mind that which hitherto you have received of His goodness, and live upon Him in your distresses.”

‘When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee.’”