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" But one day as I was passing into the field, with some dashes on my conscience, fearing yet that all was not right, suddenly this sentence fell upon my soul, “Your righteousness is in heaven.” I thought I saw with the eyes of my soul Jesus Christ at God’s right hand. There was my righteousness. Wherever I was, or whatever I was doing, God could not say of me that I lacked His righteousness, for that was ever before Him. Moreover, I saw that it was not my good frame of heart that made my righteousness better, nor yet my bad frame that made my righteousness worse, for my righteousness was Jesus Christ Himself, “the same yesterday, today, and for ever“.
Now did my chains fall off my legs indeed. I was loosed from my afflictions and irons, my temptations also fled away. From that time those dreadful Scriptures of God quit troubling me; now I went home rejoicing for the grace and love of God. "
― John Bunyan
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" Queres acaso te ver livre da melancolia?
Queres prazer, mas longe da louca agonia?
Queres ler enigmas, e sua precisa solução,
Ou preferes te afogar na tua contemplação?
Queres a carne? Será não preferes, destarte,
Ver um homem nas nuvens, ouvindo falar-te?
Anseias ver-te num sonho, mas sem dormir?
Ou não preferes a um só tempo chorar e rir?
Não te atrai a ti mesmo te perderes sem dano?
Pra depois te achares sem passe sobre-humano?
Queres tu mesmo ler, sem sequer saber o quê,
Sabendo, porém por essas linhas mesmas que lês,
Se estás ou não abençoado? Ah, vem, então,
E abre meu livro, uma só mente, um só coração. "
― John Bunyan , O Peregrino