Inspirational Quotes by George Burder

“But of that day and hour no one knows neither the angels in heaven nor the Son but only the Father.’ We are not to think that the Son of God as he is God did not know the day or hour but only that his human nature did not know it because his divine nature had not chosen to reveal it to his human nature.”

“Clearly the Holy Spirit is not merely a quality to be found in the divine nature … He is a holy intelligent person.”

“Do you see yonder shining light? He said, I think I do. Then said Evangelist, Keep that light in your eye, and go up directly thereto,”

“Sí, señora, aunque bien contra mi voluntad: especialmente mis propios pensamientos carnales, que tanto nos complacían a mí y a mis paisanos; pero ahora todas estas cosas me pesan tanto que, si la elección fuera solo mía, nunca más pensaría en ellas. Pero cuando quiero hacer el bien, entonces veo que el mal está en mí3.”

“These troubles and distresses that you go through in these waters are no sign that God has forsaken you. They are sent to call to your mind that which you have received of His goodness, that you may trust Him in your distress.”

“Then said Good-Will, "Alas, poor Pliable! Is the celestial glory of so little value to him that he considers it unworthy of his hazarding a few difficulties to obtain it?" Christian”

“If you continue in this direction you are likely to experience wearisomeness, painfulness, hunger, perils, nakedness, sword, lions, dragons, darkness, and, in a word, death, and who knows what else.”

“Esforzaos a entrar por la puerta angosta’,”

“Y además”, dijeron ellos, “si entramos en el camino, ¿qué importa de qué modo entramos? Si estamos dentro, estamos dentro; tú estás en el camino, y según percibimos, entraste por la puerta; y nosotros también estamos en el camino saltando por el muro; entonces, ¿en qué es tu condición mejor que la nuestra?”.”

“But though this be so, yet since things present and our fleshly appetite are such near neighbours one to another; and again, because things to come, and carnal sense, are such strangers one to another; therefore it is, that the first of these so suddenly fall into amity, and that distance is so continued between the second.”

“Además, ¿no hemos de caminar ahora por fe?”

“Bien contento estoy, no de que se hayan encontrado con pruebas, sino de que hayan salido vencedores; y porque (a pesar de muchas debilidades) han continuado en el camino hasta hoy”.”

“Christian nodded. “Now I see that Patience has superior wisdom in many ways. First of all, because he waits for the best things. Second, because he will also have the glory of his inheritance, when the other has nothing but rags.”

“I also know that a man, by the way he lives his life, can quickly invalidate whatever arguments or advice he presents to others for their own good. Yet”

“No he leído que nunca ningún hombre le diera a Cristo ni siquiera una moneda; pero le siguieron mujeres, y dieron de lo que tenían. Fue una mujer quien lavó sus pies con lágrimas, y una mujer la que ungió su cuerpo para la sepultura. Fueron mujeres quienes lloraron cuando Él iba a la cruz, y mujeres las que le siguieron desde la cruz, y se sentaron al lado de su sepulcro cuando fue enterrado.292 Fueron mujeres quienes estuvieron primero con Él en la mañana de su resurrección, y mujeres las que llevaron por primera vez la noticia a sus discípulos de que había resucitado de la muerte.293 Las mujeres, por lo tanto, son muy favorecidas, y en estas cosas se muestra que son copartícipes con nosotros en la gracia de vida”.”

“{78} CHR. Then said Christian to the Interpreter, Expound this matter more fully to me. INTER. So he said, These two lads are figures: Passion, of the men of this world; and Patience, of the men of that which is to come; for as here thou seest, Passion will have all now this year, that is to say, in this world; so are the men of this world, they must have all their good things now, they cannot stay till next year, that is until the next world, for their portion of good. That proverb, 'A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush', is of more authority with them than are all the Divine testimonies of the good of the world to come. But as thou sawest that he had quickly lavished all away, and had presently left him nothing but rags; so will it be with all such men at the end of this world.”

“Some who set out for this crown, even after they have gone quite a long ways, allow others who come along to snatch their victory from them. So hold fast to what you have, and let no man take away your crown.' You are not yet out of reach of the gunshot of the Devil.”

“{80} Then I saw in my dream that the Interpreter took Christian by the hand, and led him into a place where was a fire burning against a wall, and one standing by it, always casting much water upon it, to quench it; yet did the fire burn higher and hotter. Then said Christian, What means this? {81} The Interpreter answered, This fire is the work of grace that is wrought in the heart; he that casts water upon it, to extinguish and put it out, is the Devil; but in that thou seest the fire notwithstanding burn higher and hotter, thou shalt also see the reason of that. So he had him about to the backside of the wall, where he saw a man with a vessel of oil in his hand, of the which he did also continually cast, but secretly, into the fire. Then said Christian, What means this? {82} The Interpreter answered, This is Christ, who continually, with the oil of his grace, maintains the work already begun in the heart: by the means of which, notwithstanding what the devil can do, the souls of his people prove gracious still. [2 Cor. 12:9] And in that thou sawest that the man stood behind the wall to maintain the fire, that is to teach thee that it is hard for the tempted to see how this work of grace is maintained in the soul.”

“Eso lo dudo, porque dejarlo todo es un asunto difícil; sí, más difícil de lo que muchos creen.”

“The Swamp of Despond is that place set before the narrow gate where true and false pilgrims alike are assaulted by their own internal corruption and pollution. The dirt and scum that has attached itself to our hearts and minds is agitated and revealed by both the workings of a guilty conscience and the devouring avarice of the enemy of our souls. The”