The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

delighted. But now all those things are my grief; and might I have my
desires, I would choose never to think of those things again. For I have
the desire to do what is good, but I have no ability to carry it out.”
PRUDENCE: "Do you find sometimes as if you had overcome those
worldly thoughts — yet find them still your annoyance at other times?"
CHRISTIAN: "Yes, but that is but seldom, and then they are to me as
golden hours!"
PRUDENCE: "Can you remember by what means you find these
annoyances, at times, as if they were overcome?"
CHRISTIAN: "Yes, when I think of what I saw at the Cross — that will do
it. And when I look upon my embroidered coat — that will do it. Also
when I look into the scroll that I carry in my bosom — that will do it.
And when my thoughts are aglow about where I am going — that will
do it."
PRUDENCE: "And why are you so desirous to go to the Celestial City?"
CHRISTIAN: "Why, it is there that I hope to see Him alive, who once
hung dead on the Cross! And there I hope to be rid of all these
hindrances which so constantly annoy me. In that wonderful place,
there is no death — and I shall dwell with those whom I best desire. For,
to tell you the truth, I love Him, because He is the one who eased me of
my heavy burden. Besides I am weary of the evil within me. I would
gladly be where I shall die no more, and with the company who
continually cry: Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty!”
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