Inspirational Quotes by George Burder

“¿Tenía en tan poca estima la gloria celestial que no la consideró digna de pasar por los peligros de unas cuantas dificultades para obtenerla?”.”

“Then have we right thoughts of God, when we think that He knows us better than we know ourselves, and can see sin in us when and where we can see none in ourselves; when we think He knows our inmost thoughts, and that our heart, with all its depths, is always open unto His eyes; also when we think that all our righteousness stinks in His nostrils, and that therefore He cannot abide to see us stand before Him in any confidence, even in all our best performances.”

“See! I went a little farther, and I saw one who hung bleeding upon a tree, and the very sight of Him made my burden fall off my back (for I had groaned under a very heavy burden, but then it fell off). It was a strange thing to see, and I have never seen anything like it before. And while I stood looking up at the one hanging on the cross, three Shining Ones came to me. One of them testified that my sins were forgiven; another stripped me of my rags and gave me this embroidered coat that you see; and the third gave me the mark that you see on my forehead and gave me this sealed scroll." And with that he plucked it out of his coat.”

“When Christians unto carnal men give ear, Out of their way they go, and pay for 't dear; For Master Worldly Wiseman can but shew A saint the way to bondage and to woe.”

“he who doesn’t come in by the door, but climbs up some other way, that person is a thief and a robber’?”

“—¿Sabes tú el camino a este lugar anhelado?”

“These troubles and distresses you are experiencing in these waters are no indication that God has abandoned you. Rather, they are sent to test you to see whether or not you will recall the evidences of his past goodness and rely upon him in your present distresses.”

“As the saying of the wise says, ‘All this world promotes is vanity.’ (But if a man lives many years and rejoices in them all; yet if afterwards he remembers the days of darkness, for they shall be many, he shall say that everything that shall have happened to him is vanity. – Eccles. 11:8)”

“Who would true valour see, / Let him come hither. . . / fancies fly away, / He'll fear not what men say, / He'll labour night and day / To be a pilgrim.”

“Every tub must stand upon its own without the need of assistance.”

“So Christian went on his way, saying: "Here have I seen things rare and profitable; Things pleasant, dreadful; things to make me stable In what I have begun to take in hand: Then let me think on them, and understand Wherefore they showed me where; and let me be Thankful, O good Interpreter, to thee.”

“APOLIÓN: “Tú ya has sido infiel en tu servicio a Él, ¿y cómo esperas recibir de Él una recompensa?”. CRISTIANO: “¿En qué, oh Apolión, le he sido infiel a Él?”. APOLIÓN: “Desfalleciste poco después de salir, cuando casi te ahogas en el Pantano del Desaliento; sí fuiste por caminos equivocados para librarte de tu carga, mientras que deberías haber permanecido hasta que tu Príncipe te hubiera despojado de ella; te quedaste dormido y perdiste tu tesoro; y también casi te convenciste para retroceder al ver a los leones; y cuando hablas de tu viaje, y de lo que has visto y oído, en tu interior tienes deseos de vanagloria en todo lo que dices o haces”. CRISTIANO: “Todo eso es cierto, y mucho más que no has dicho; pero el Príncipe a quien sirvo y honro es misericordioso, y listo para perdonar; pero además, esos delitos me poseían en tu país, porque allí los cometí, y me he quejado bajo su peso y los he lamentado, y he obtenido perdón de mi Príncipe”.”

“pangs,”

“Estos problemas y angustias que experimentas en estas aguas no son una señal de que Dios te haya abandonado, sino que son enviadas para probarte, para ver si traes a tu mente lo que has recibido hasta aquí de su bondad, y vives de Él en tu angustia”.”

“Now, I say a person may be enthusiastic about heaven, but only because they sense and fear the torments of hell. But as their sense and fear of damnation chills and cools, in the same way their desires for heaven and salvation cool also. So then it comes to pass, that when their guilt and fear is gone, their desires for heaven and happiness die, and they return to their former course in life again.”

“(The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns, but the path of the righteous is made plain. –”

“At the top of the hill stood a cross and a little below at the bottom was a stone tomb. In my dream, just as Christian came up to the cross his burden loosened from his shoulders and fell off his back. It tumbled and continued to do so down the hill until it came to the mouth of the tomb where it fell inside and was seen no more. Christian was so glad and overjoyed and in his excitement he said, “He has given me rest by his sorrow and life by his death.”

“CHR. I seek an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away [1 Pet. 1:4], and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there [Heb. 11:16], to be bestowed, at the time appointed, on them that diligently seek it.”

“Thus far did I come laden with my sin; Nor could aught ease the grief that I was in Till I came hither: What a place is This! Must here be the beginning of my bliss? Must here the burden fall from off my back? Must here the strings that bound it to me crack? Blest Cross! blest Sepulchre! blest rather be The Man that was put to shame for me”

“Faithful is also a reminder of how important companionship is to the Christian walk, but not more important than the desire for eternal life that motivated Faithful to keep fleeing for his life, no matter how strong the desire for friendship. Chapter”