Pilgrim’s Progress: The Dreamer’s Vision (2:12)
Any vision that makes the path toward God feel more urgent is not cruelty. It is mercy in a particularly bracing form.
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
Here Christian will learn hidden meanings of what he has already seen and the essential truths of what lies ahead. You cannot make the journey well without this stop.
The narrow way has a quality about it that the broader paths lack. It requires something of you
The door swings wide, and the pilgrim who has no claim to anything but his own desperate need steps across the threshold.
The life Worldly Wiseman describes, orderly, respectable, burden-free through the careful cultivation of moral living, sounds genuinely appealing.
Help is just someone who is there at the right moment. He does the necessary thing. And then he steps back out of the limelight.
Obstinate and Pliable are people who are in our churches, in our small groups, in our families… and in our own mirrors?