A Word for Wednesday

"Therefore, thought I, what God says, is best, though all the men in the world are against it: 

Seeing then that God prefers his religion; seeing God prefers a tender Conscience; 

seeing they that make themselves fools for the Kingdom of Heaven, are wisest; 

and that the poor man that loveth Christ, is richer than the greatest man in the world that hates him; Shame, depart, thou art an Enemy to my Salvation; shall I entertain thee against my Sovereign Lord?"

~from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan~