“What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.”
Source: The Pilgrims Progress
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English Christian writer and preacher 1628–1688Related quotes

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Poetry

Words on being presented with a Bible, as reported in the Washington Daily Morning Chronicle (8 September 1864)
1860s

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Opening line.
The Portal of the Mystery of Hope (1912)

Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts.
Letter to Peter Augustus Jay, April 9, 1784.
1780s

“The best of it all is, God is with us.”
A statement among his final words, said to have been repeated two or three times, as quoted in The Living Wesley (1891) by James Harrison Rigg
Variants: The best of it is, God is with us.
Best of all, God is with us.
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