12/16/2020: “The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.” by John Bunyan
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Author of the immortal allegory – “Pilgrim’s Progress” and Puritan preacher extraordinare. “Bunyan was born in 1628 in the heart of England, a mile south of Bedford a few years before the English Civil War. His family was so poor that when his father died, John was left only one shilling and his tinker’s anvil. The boy had little formal education. However, he learned to read and feasted on medieval romances in which valiant knights underwent great trials and conquered villains and monsters. In youth he boasted a mouth so profane it shocked even wicked men. Additionally, he loved to dance, bell-ring and lead Sunday sports, all considered improper by Puritans. Although he attended church, he had little religious feeling.