Pilgrim’s Progress: Simple, Sloth, and Presumption (3:3)
These three have made peace with their chains and are snoring through their own destruction.
These three have made peace with their chains and are snoring through their own destruction.
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
Treasures quickly gained are just as quickly lost.
We were created to do good works just as the sweeping servant is doing what he was hired to do. But without the good news of God’s grace, our works under the law alone do nothing but stir up trouble.
This man is the kind of person God puts in the path of pilgrims to help them find their way.