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Quotation from Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners by John Bunyan

“the parting with my wife and poor children, hath often been to me in this place, as the pulling the flesh from the bones”

John Bunyan

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, §327 (Project Gutenberg #654 (Religious Tract Society, 1905))

Portrait of John Bunyan

In prison he describes the grief of separation, above all from his blind daughter.

Citation: "the parting with my wife and poor children, hath often been to me in this place, as the pulling the flesh from the bones" — John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, §327 (Project Gutenberg #654 (Religious Tract Society, 1905)). (id grace-abounding-q7)

Virtues: Fortitude, Charity

Portrait: John Bunyan by Thomas Sadler 1684, Thomas Sadler, Public domain.

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