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The hill, though high, I covet to ascend,The difficulty will not me offend;
For I perceive the way to life lies here.
Come, pluck up heart, let’s neither faint nor fear;
Better, though difficult, the right way to go,
Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe. —John Bunyan’s Christian, in The Pilgrim’s Progress
He that is down needs fear no fall;
He that is low, no pride:
He that is humble ever shall
Have God to be his Guide.
I am content with what I have,
Little be it or much:
And, Lord, contentment still I crave,
Because Thou savest such.
Fullness to such a burden is
That go on pilgrimage:
Here little, and hereafter bliss,
Is best from age to age. —John Bunyan’s Mr. Great-heart, in The Pilgrim’s Progress
Craig T. Owens 