John Bunyan — a remark

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“Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that roared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them, we shall find a nest of honey within them.”

Describing how resisting temptation can turn fear into strength and insight · The Pilgrim’s Progress

About John Bunyan

John Bunyan

November 1628–31 August 1688

John Bunyan, baptized on 30 November 1628 and dead on 31 August 1688, rose from the working life of rural Bedfordshire to become one of the most influential English religious writers of all time. Though he is best known as the author of The Pilgrim’s Progress, a book whose characters and phrases entered the language…

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