“Were I asked to focus the New Testament message in three words, my proposal would be ADOPTION THROUGH PROPITIATION, and I do not expect ever to meet a richer or more pregnant summary of the gospel than that.”
“We are not fit for a place in God's family; the idea of his loving and exalting us sinners as he loves and has exalted the Lord Jesus sounds ludicrous and wild -- yet that, and nothing less than that, is what our adoption means.”
Source: Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide
“The unceasing activity of the Creator whereby, in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances, and free acts of angels and men, and directs everything to its appointed goal, for His own glory.”
“Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.”
Source: The Pilgrim’s Progress Simplified: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index
“I seek a place that can never be destroyed, one that is pure, and that fadeth not away, and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there, to be given, at the time appointed, to them that seek it with all their heart. Read it so, if you will, in my book.”
Source: The Pilgrim's Progress
“For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.”
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (Illustrated Edition)
“The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.”
Source: The Pilgrims' Progress: From this World, to that which is to Come. Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream. In Two Parts
“The law, instead of cleansing the heart from sin, doth revive it, put strength into, and increase it in the soul, even as it doth discover and forbid it, for it doth not give power to subdue.”
Source: The Pilgrim’s Progress Simplified: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index
“Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.”
Source: The Pilgrim ́s Progress
“God speaks once, yea twice, yet Man perceiveth it not, in a Dream, in a Vision of the night, when deep Sleep falleth upon men, in slumbering upon the bed. We need not, when abed, to lie awake to talk with God, he can visit us while we sleep, and cause us then to hear his Voice. Our heart oft-times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake”
Source: The Pilgrim's Progress: In Two Parts