Pilgrim’s Progress: Formalist & Hypocrisy (3:4)
As long as you are on the road, what does it matter how you got there? The destination is the same, isn’t it?
As long as you are on the road, what does it matter how you got there? The destination is the same, isn’t it?
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These three have made peace with their chains and are snoring through their own destruction.
He is clothed in something entirely new that does not belong to him by nature. It is the only kind of righteousness that can actually stand before a holy God.
The cross is the only place in all of Bunyan’s allegorical world, and in all of the real world too, where the burden can be removed.
The Interpreter does not pretend the road is easy. He simply confirms that it is worth it.
Any vision that makes the path toward God feel more urgent is not cruelty. It is mercy in a particularly bracing form.
He is in a cage of his own making, forged from his own choices, and he cannot get out.
They will stand at that door forever, wanting without willing, hoping without committing. The palace will remain something they observed from a distance rather than something they ever actually entered.
We need to remember that the One who started the fire is also the One keeping it burning