John Bunyan Quotes
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.
Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim's Progress. Nathaniel Ponder, 1678.
The Christian Crusaders then believed, like many Muslims even in modern times, that the person who dies in Battle defending God and the Faith shall ascend immediately to paradise. The Muslims threw in many virgins to go along with the ascendency, but the basic idea was the same.
Governor Huckabee was also a fundamentalist Protestant minister. In effect, he was telling the NRA that the hunting use of guns is not only OK here on earth but is probably OK with God as well. At the same time, other clerics suggest that God is opposed to such a large distribution of guns that so many Americans kill.
John Bunyan was an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress. In addition to The Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons.