{"id":197101,"date":"2025-11-28T09:36:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=197101"},"modified":"2025-11-28T09:36:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:36:30","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-john-bunyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=197101","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from John Bunyan"},"content":{"rendered":"

London, UK…John Bunyan, November 28 1628 \u2013 31 August 1688. English writer and nonconformist preacher. Best remembered as the author of The Pilgrim’s Progress.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.\u201d
\n\u2015 John Bunyan<\/p>\n

\u201cIn prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. \u201d
\n\u2015 John Bunyan<\/p>\n

\u201cPrayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.\u201d
\n\u2015 John Bunyan<\/p>\n

\u201cThis hill, though high, I covet to ascend;
\nThe difficulty will not me offend.
\nFor I perceive the way to life lies here.
\nCome, pluck up, heart; let’s neither faint nor fear.
\nBetter, though difficult, the right way to go,
\nThan wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.\u201d
\n\u2015 John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

London, UK…John Bunyan, November 28 1628 \u2013 31 August 1688. English writer and nonconformist preacher. Best remembered as the author of The Pilgrim’s Progress. \u201cYou have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.\u201d \u2015 John Bunyan \u201cIn prayer it is better to have a heart without words […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/John_Bunyan_by_Thomas_Sadler_1684.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197103,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197101\/revisions\/197103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/197102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}