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It is my duty, said he, to distrust mine own ability, that I may have reliance on Him that is stronger than all.

Then said Mercy to Christiana, There is not such pleasant being here, as at the gate, or at the Interpreter’s, or at the house where we lay last. Oh, but, said one of the boys, it is not so bad to go through here, as it is to abide here always; and, for ought, I know, one reason why we must go this way to the house prepared for us is, that our home might be made the sweeter to us.

“Do you fly youthful lusts, and follow after godliness with them that are grave and wise, so shall you put gladness into your mother’s heart, and obtain praise of all that are sober-minded.”

“I purpose never to have a clog to my soul.”

“One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner. He that forgets his friend, is ungrateful unto him; but he that forgets his Savior, is unmerciful to himself.”

“Fruit, you see, is that thing you look for; and for want of that you condemn it to the fire, and to be trodden under foot of men: beware that in this you condemn not yourselves.”

“Earthly things, when they are with power upon men’s minds, quite carry their hearts away from God.”

The bitter must come before the sweet, and that also will make the sweet the sweeter.

What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk in liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.

That man that takes up religion for the world, will throw away religion for the world; for so surely as Judas designed the world in becoming religious, so surely did he also sell religion and his master for the same.