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I would not have been without this trial for much; I am comforted every time I think of it, and I hope I shall bless God for ever, for the teaching I have had by it.

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“I would not have been without this trial for much; I am comforted every time I think of it, and I hope I shall bless God for ever, for the teaching I have had by it.”

John Bunyan

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Bunyan retrospectively interprets a period of fear and spiritual testing as instruction that strengthened his sense of sincerity and dependence on God.

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Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, paragraph 339, represented by Project Gutenberg #654. This is Bunyan’s explicitly Christian autobiographical reflection after describing fear of imprisonment, death and spiritual abandonment; it remains devotional testimony rather than general mental-health or adversity advice.

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