John Bunyan

the Wall, I thought, was the Word

Now the passage being very strait and narrow... I was well nigh quite beat out, by striving to get in

I saw... a narrow gap, like a little doorway in the Wall

I was tossed betwixt the Devil and my own Ignorance, and so perplexed... that I could not tell what to do.

it would then have been as difficult for me to have taken my mind from Heaven to Earth, as I have found it often since to get it again from Earth to Heaven.

so fixed on Eternity, and on the things about the Kingdom of Heaven

my Mind was now so turned

they were to me as if they had found a new World

they were far above, out of my reach

in the matters of Religion. But

I came where there were three or four poor Women sitting at a door in the Sun, and talking about the things of God

yet, I was nothing but a poor painted Hypocrite, yet I loved to be talked of as one that was truly godly.

Now, I was, as they said, become godly; now I was become a right honest man.

When a man's cause is good, it will sufficiently plead for itself, yea, and for its master too.

See that your cause be good, else Christ will not undertake it.