The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

FAITHFUL: "And a thousand times welcome! Your company, O sweet
Evangelist — how desirable it is to us poor Pilgrims!”
EVANGELIST: "How has it fared with you, my friends, since the time of
our last parting? What have you met with, and how have you conducted
yourselves?"
Then Christian and Faithful told him of all the things which had
happened to them along the way — and what difficulties they had met
with.
EVANGELIST: "How glad I am — not that you have met with trials — but
that you have been victors; and that in spite of many weaknesses, you
have continued in the narrow way even to this very day.
"I am glad both for my own sake and for yours. I have sowed — and you
have reaped. The day is coming, when both those who sowed and those
who reaped shall rejoice together. That is, if you persevere — for in due
season you shall reap — if you do not grow weary. The crown is before
you, and it is an incorruptible one. So run, that you may obtain it.
"There are some who have set out for this crown, and, after they have
gone far for it — have had it taken from them. Hold fast, therefore,
what you have — let no man take your crown! You are not yet out of the
gun-shot reach of the devil. You have not resisted unto blood, striving
against sin. Let the kingdom be always before your eyes. Steadfastly
believe the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are
temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. Let nothing in
this world capture your highest affections. Above all, pay attention to
your fleshly desires, and your hearts — for they are deceitful above all
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