He Who Would Valiant Be

John Bunyan, 1684

If there’s one thing that any true pilgrim knows, it’s that the way isn’t strewn with roses. I don’t know, actually, whether we would want it to be so. And God, who is our desire, builds up the strength in us by endurance. That’s what the apostle Paul says. “We rejoice in our sufferings,” not despite them but in them, because “suffering produces end…