John Bunyan — The Pilgrim's Progress, Part One

But he considered again that he had no armour for his back; and therefore thought that to turn the back to him might give him the greater advantage with ease to pierce him with his darts. Therefore he resolved to venture…

For here was only room for body and soul, but not for body and soul and sin.

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.

To go back is nothing but death; to go forward is fear of death, and life-everlasting beyond it. I will yet go forward.

Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gate of heaven, as well as from the City of Destruction.

What God says is best, indeed is best, though all the men in the world are against it.