The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

Then Christian began, "I will ask you a question. How did you come at
first, to think of going on this pilgrimage?"
HOPEFUL: "Do you mean, how did I first come to look after the good of
my soul?"
CHRISTIAN: "Yes, that is my meaning.”
HOPEFUL: "I continued a great while in the delight of those vain things
which were seen and sold at our fair. These things I now believe, had I
continued in them still, would have drowned me in perdition and
destruction!”
CHRISTIAN: "What things were they?"
HOPEFUL: "All the treasures and riches of the world. I also delighted
much in carousing, drinking, swearing, lying, impurity, Sabbathbreaking,
and what not — all of which lead to the destruction of the
soul. But I found at last, by hearing and considering divine things,
which I heard from you and beloved Faithful, (who was put to death for
his faith and holy living in Vanity Fair) that the end of these things is
death! And that for these things, the wrath of God comes upon the
children of disobedience!"
CHRISTIAN: "Did you immediately fall under the power of this
conviction?"
HOPEFUL: "No, I was not initially willing to know the evil of sin, nor the
damnation which follows the commission of sin. Rather, when my
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